Re: debian install without assistance

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv vanzandt mv com>]

Andor -

The Debian install disks are very complex.  However, replacing the
kernel is easy.  The rescue disk is a regular DOS floppy, so you can
copy a new kernel with any DOS machine.  Here's the relevant section
of the install documentation:

9.2 Rescue Floppy

   The Rescue Floppy has an MS-DOS filesystem, and you should be able
   to access it from anything else that can mount DOS disks. The Linux
   kernel is in the file linux. The file root.bin is a gzip-compressed
   disk image of a 1.44 MB Minix filesystem, and will be loaded into
   the RAM disk and used as the root filesystem.

9.3 Replacing the Rescue Floppy Kernel

   If you find it necessary to replace the kernel on the Rescue
   Floppy, you must configure your new kernel with these features
   linked in, not in loadable modules:

     * Initial RAM disk
     * DOS, Minix, and EXT2 filesystems
     * ELF executables

   Copy your new kernel to the file linux on the Rescue Floppy, and
   then run the shell script rdev.sh that you'll find on the floppy.

	    - Jim Van Zandt


>Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 00:26:28 +0200
>From: Andor Demarteau <goniners warande1130 warande uu nl>
>
>hi everyone,
>has anyone of you all ever installed debian without sighted assistance using a braille display (preverably with brltty as screenreader and debian version 2.1)?
>if so, please let me know.
>I massed up my first install done by a friend of my last year and have to re-install in tomplately to ger rid of a sgementation fault as well.
>
>any insites in the composition fo a debian installdisk (i.e. how to put in a customized kernel) are welcome as well.
>
>thanx,
>Andor Demarteau
>Utrecht University
>
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