Debian 2.1 (Slink)

May 5, 2020

Screenshots

2.1-boot.png 2.1-login.png 2.1-x.png

Installation notes

At boot prompt press Enter
Select Color
Select Next
Select Exit
Select “Next Configure the Keyboard”
Select “querty/uk”
Select “Next Partition A Hard Disk”
Select “/dev/hda” and OK
Create One big partition
Select “Alternate Do Without a Swap Parition”
Select Yes
Select “Next Initialize A Linux Disk Partition”
Select “/dev/hda1”
Select No for Bad Blocks scan
Select Yes to Confirm initilize
Select “Yes” to mount as root filesystem
Select “Next Install Operating System Kernel and Modules”
Select “hardisk” and OK
Select “/dev/hdb1”
Enter “/” and OK
Select “list” and Enter
Select “disks-i386/2.1.12-1999” and Enter
Select “Next Configure Device Driver Modules”
Select “net”
Select “ne”
Select “Install”
Type “irq=9 io=0x300” and OK
Expect Installation succeeded, Enter to continue
Select Exit
Select Exit
Select “Next Configure the Network”
Press Enter to set hostname to debian
Select yes to use a network
Type “lan” and Enter to set domain
Select Yes to confirm fqdn
Enter IP: 192.168.122.10
Enter netmask: 255.255.255.0
Enter network: 192.168.122.0
Enter broadcast: 192.168.122.255
Enter Yes for Gateway
Enter 192.168.122.1 for gateway
Select “Another system will be the DNS server”
Enter Name Server: 192.168.122.1
Select Yes to confirm
Select “eth0: Ethernet or Fast Ethernet”
Select “Next Install the Base system”
Select “hardisk” and OK
Select “/dev/hdb1”
Enter “/” and OK
Select “list” and Enter
Select “disks-i386/2.1.12-1999” and Enter
Select “Next Configure the Base System”
Type “Europe” Enter “London” Enter
Enter for Continue message
Select yes to set system clock to GMT
Select “Next Make Linux Bootable Directly From Hard Disk”
Select Yes to install MBR to /dev/hda
Select Yes to boot system on /dev/hda1
Don’t Select “Next Make a boot Floppy” and OK # This Fails
Select “Next Reboot The System”
Select “Yes” to confirm reboot
At boot: prompt enter “linux root=/dev/hda1”
Set root password
Create user account
Turn on shadow password
Remove pcmcia package
Type Y to select package selections
Select “Word_std” and OK
Press Enter to continue and run dselect
Select Access, harddisk, enter /dev/hdb1, enter ext2, enter /, enter none for local, return
Select Update, Enter
Select Select, space, enter, choose: ssh, space, enter
Select Install
Select Config
Select Remove
select quit
login as root
run: mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt
run: cp /mnt/netscape* /tmp
run: cp /mnt/XF86Config /root
run: umount /mnt
run: dselect
Sekect Select, choose: autoconf, gnuchess, screen, cern-httpd, tcpdump, wu-ftpd, hdparm, minicom, python-base, samba, ddd, gimp-dmotif, netscape4, xbase and enter
Select Install
Select Config
Select Remote
Select Quit
run: cp /root/XF86Config /etc/X11
run: lilo
run: shutdown -h now