Before You Begin

There is a bit of preparation that may need to be done before the installation

can begin. If you are familiar with creating boot floppies, and partitioning

the hard drive you may wish to skip this section and move ahead with the

installation steps.

Boot Media

If your PC will boot the installation CD ROM provided with this book (Disk

#1 of the 3 CD set), then you already have all the boot media you will need.

If the CD ROM will not boot on the target machine, see the instructions on

creating boot floppies provided in the install.en.txt file located in:

debian/dists/stable/main/disks i386/current/doc/

The rescue disks are a 2 floppy set of a separate boot and root disk. In order

to get to your CD ROM you will most likely need the additional 3 floppy set of

disks that hold the various drivers needed by the kernel to access the different

kinds of CD ROM devices that may be installed on the target machine. With

these floppies installed, the rest of the installation data can be accessed directly

from the CD ROM.

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