Debian 0.93R6

This is the oldest Debian release on the http://archive.debian.org/ servers. The installation process is much more seamless than 0.91. It seems to have taken the install shell scripts and turned into what looks a lot more like the “boot floppies” installer which is common throughout all the installers up until the wonderful “debian-installer” came along.

Once installed, you get a much more modern dpkg and dselect to pick packages. The amount of available programs has increased alot.

Screenshots

0.93-boot.png 0.93-login.png 0.93-x.png

Installation notes

  1. At boot prompt enter: “linux root=/dev/fd1”
  2. At “Insert Root Disk” prompt press Enter
  3. Select OK
  4. Select Continue
  5. Select Expert
  6. Select “1 Partition a Hard Disk”
  7. Create One big partition
  8. Select “3 Prepare A Linux Partition”
  9. Enter: “/dev/hda1”
  10. Select “4 Mount/Unmount Partitions”
  11. Enter: m, hda1, / and c
  12. Select: “5 Install Debian GNU/Linux”
  13. Select yes to use /dev/hda1 as root
  14. Select: /dev/fd0
  15. run on host: cp repo/disks/1440_base_floppy-1 fda.img
  16. Press Enter
  17. run on host: cp repo/disks/1440_base_floppy-2 fda.img
  18. Press Enter
  19. run on host: cp repo/disks/1440_base_floppy-3 fda.img
  20. Press Enter
  21. Select: “6 Configure Debian GNU/Linux”
  22. Select yes to use /dev/hda1 as root
  23. Select no to choose different keymap
  24. Type: uk.map
  25. At Block Modules Setup Select OK
  26. At File System Modules Select OK
  27. At Network Modules Select OK
  28. At Miscellaneis Modules Select OK
  29. Press Enter to set hostname to debian
  30. Press Enter to set empty domain
  31. Press y to confirm
  32. Type Europe Enter and London Enter to set timezone
  33. type y to set system clock to GMT
  34. Select: “7 Make A Boot Diskette”
  35. Press Enter
  36. Select: “9 Reboot The System”
  37. Login as root
  38. Set password
  39. Create user account
  40. dselect, select quit
  41. login as root
  42. run: mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt
  43. run: cat /mnt/network » /etc/init.d/network
  44. run: echo “nameserver 8.8.8.8” > /etc/resolv.conf
  45. run: sed ’s/^#telnet/telnet/’ /etc/inetd.conf > /etc/inetd.conf.new
  46. run: mv /etc/inetd.conf.new /etc/inetd.conf
  47. run: dselect
  48. Select Access, harddrive, yes, type /mnt/binary, pres enter to confirm /mnt/binary/Packages
  49. Select Update
  50. Select Select, space, enter, space, enter
  51. Select Install, when prompted install a lilo boot block, choose y to replace config files
  52. Select Config
  53. Select Remove
  54. Select Select, choose: sudo, autoconf, tcl, tk, vim, gnuchess, xboard, xfig, gnuplot, screen, bind, cern-httpd, lynx, tcpdump, wu-ftpd, a2gs, ghostview, All Optional section x11, hdparm, minicom, python, samba, xntp, and enter
  55. lelect Install, when promped for xfree86 setup, choose n
  56. Select Config
  57. Select Remote
  58. Select Quit
  59. run: cp /mnt/XF86Config /etc/X11
  60. run: ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16 /etc/X11/X
  61. run: startx (test X works)
  62. run: sed ’s/^run_xdm=0/run_xdm=1/’ /etc/init.d/xdm > /tmp/xdm
  63. run: cat /tmp/xdm > /etc/init.d/xdm
  64. run: rm /tmp/xdm
  65. run: lilo
  66. run: shutdown -h now