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The time has come. I have started to install Debian Linux on my old laptop.

I have gotten this iso file and expanded it to a CD which I have moved to the laptop.

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/we...-xfce-CD-1.iso

From what I have read so far from the installation guide, the next thing for me to do is to boot off of the CD drive.

The only thing I am wondering right now is this. Since this is an installation using just once CD (I double checked the readme file, and it is), does this mean that I am required to be on the internet when I install this version of Debian?

Why are you double posting. If you can't figure out that that is not acceptable here, you are not ready for Debian.

Complete,

Take a look at rickh's signature line:

Quote:

Search engines are God's special gift to Linux users. Use one before you ask your question.

If you are not able to get past that point, it means you have not been doing enough reading. Someone will answer your question, because it is an easy one, but you will just run into another one and get hung up. Go to [HTML]debian.org[/HTML] install page and read the thing top to bottom before trying anything, better yet, read and compare it to the one in LQ.org.

Do this and you will be up and running in no time.
Eric.

Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide
http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/

Release Notes for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 ("etch"), Intel x86
http://www.debian.org/releases/testi...release-notes/

Would be a good place to start READING.

Sorry. I did not mean to double post.
I am installing the OS as I type this.
FYI, not all ISO programs are the same.
The one I was using did not create a
boot sector like Nero does.

Any .iso image that you "burn as image" will indeed have an autoboot feature, as long as the people who made the iso put one there. And I can assure you, the Debian team always puts one there. I would suspect you didn't burn as an image, but just tried to burn the literal .iso file to a disk, which is not what should be done. Once again, it comes down to reading directions.

Peace,
JimBass

my they are merciless... but they are right, do your homework.

I have installed Debian with the "limited features" single CD. The install went well. The first image that came up during the installation looked a little scewed and I asked around for a digital camera to make a snapshot but noone had one handy.

It was an Omen.

Afte the installation completed, the system asked me to remove the CD and reboot.

The reboot seemed to go well too.

But then the screen was blank.

What I am guessing is that I should have read the minimal requirements for the screen resolution. That or I have to do the complete 23 CD installation.

The screen is blank after an install. By default Debian installs no graphical interface, it is command line only. If the box has an internet connection, issuing commands like

Code:

apt-get install gnome

apt-get install kde

apt-get install xfce

(pick any 1)

will get you a graphical interface. All the single install CD does more or less is get you online so you can download all the rest of the software you want.

Peace,
JimBass

1. No, you are not required to have an internet connection.
2. If you burned the image correctly, then it should boot directly from the CD.

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Afte the installation completed, the system asked me to remove the CD and reboot.

The reboot seemed to go well too.

But then the screen was blank.

He has it installed Sepero, he just doesn't have X running.

Peace,
JimBass

Actually if he used the XFCE iso it should have installed xfce without asking. Chances are xorg simply isn't configured properly or he may need a video driver.

Do you have a command prompt (blinking cursor) or a completely blank screen?

It is completely blank.

And I installed the version with the XFCE:

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/we...-xfce-CD-1.iso

If you want, you can press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to go to a terminal.

But I actually suggest a reinstall. You may have neglected to read some important steps.

I am using this version:

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/we...-xfce-CD-1.iso

Which is a single disk version of "ETCH"

(I have also made the 23 CD's of "ETCH" from here http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/we...s/i386/iso-cd/
and they are ready if I need to use them)

Here is what happens. I turn on the computer and it gives some sort of warning in white letters
in a red box that says that there is no partition. I figure that this is OK since that is how
I remember setting up the system. I thought that there was no issue with it having no partition
anyway.

Shortly after this, it gives me a menu option to pick from a default version or a single user option.

If I pick the default version it eventually goes to a blank screen

If I pick the single user option it eventually goes to a command prompt.

Then, if I type:
startx

it will also go to a blank screen.

So, thinking that the problem must be with the fact that my laptop has an ancient screen resolution,
I decided to connect a more modern monitor to the laptop and try again. This time, it pretty much the same
as it did before except for the very end there was a different error instead of a blank screen.

I got a coworker to take some digital snapshots of the process. The first are blurry bu they get clearer.

http://www.gelsana.com/debian/100_2411.JPG

It says:

Partition doesn't exist
Save to Disk feature is disabled
Hit any key to exit.