windows debian installation

sunils1973 · 02-03-2009, 01:01 AM

Can I install debian on a system by booting through CD
and then mount a windows drive in another machine in the network
and install?

The problem is though I can boot from the CDROM drive, during installation, it fails to mount the CD ROM drive

Apache web server is available in windows computers.

farslayer · 02-03-2009, 07:52 AM

So the problem is it's not able to see the CDROM drive part way through the install.. Is this a SATA CDRom by chance ?

Have you tried using the etchnhalf CD to install from, or the Debian Lenny install ? Either of those do a much better job at hardware detection and may resolve your CDROM issue.

Etch-n-Half (Etch with an updated Kernel)
http://wiki.debian.org/EtchAndAHalf

Debian Lenny (Testing)
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

sunils1973 · 02-03-2009, 11:42 AM

It is not SATA
It is a very old IBM tower type PIII machine. I think the drive speed is very low

farslayer · 02-03-2009, 03:43 PM

I see this is a duplicate of a thread you started earlier.. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...debian-700545/

have you tried either of the newer versions of Debian to see if they would resolve your issue ?

Could also be defective media or Defective CDROM drive.

sunils1973 · 02-04-2009, 10:49 AM

yes farslayer

not yet tried the later versions

But I don't think anything wrong with CD drive because I can Install windows from the CD drive. Also I have changed 2 more Drives ( not new ) - the same problem.

sunils1973 · 02-05-2009, 07:11 AM

Yes the problem solved

It is the problem with DMA The link provided by farslayer in my previous thread led me to success.

But I could'nt install the full system. I have done only the base system with no desktop
I think that the /etc/rc* directories are not there

Shall I make it manually?

sunils1973 · 02-05-2009, 07:12 AM

Yes the problem solved

It is the problem with DMA The link provided by farslayer in my previous thread led me to success.

But I could'nt install the full system. I have done only the base system with no desktop
I think that the /etc/rc* directories are not there

Shall I make it manually?

farslayer · 02-06-2009, 07:15 PM

the base system would include the rc directories..

To install the desktop

aptitude update
aptitude install gnome-core (or xfce4, or lxde, or whatever desktop you want.. )

sunils1973 · 02-07-2009, 11:36 AM

Yes it is there (rc directories)

I have done the complete gnome background

also set the samba server

windows users can access the samba share (security = user)and copy files from that share

but when I tried to copy a file from windows to the shared samba folder, access denied
the permission on the shared directory is rwx for owner.

Is it necessary to share the folder via nfs?