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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.


Dale Scheetz