Installation manual

83.Installation of the Debian Base System
due to geometric constraints of the drive.Lastly note: It may be a good idea to reservealarge enough partition
for the preparation of CD-R images.
To create the hibernation partition, we need to run phdisk.exe from a DOS partition. Tothis end, we boot into
FreeDOS and use fdisk to create the twoDOS partitions c: (/dev/hda1) and d: (/dev/hda2) and then format c: and
format d:
First preliminary partition layout:
Partition: Purpose: Intended: Actual: Type:
/dev/hda1 DOS 8MB 15.49MB 06 FAT12
/dev/hda2 DOS 512MB 541.91MB 06 FAT16
Nowweboot the Debian installation system with the bf24 kernel by pressing <F3> at the boot prompt and then
followinstuctions to add a preliminary linux partition and install a base system.
Second preliminary partition layout:
Partition: Purpose: Intended: Actual: Type:
/dev/hda1 DOS 8MB 15.49MB 06 FAT12
/dev/hda2 DOS 512MB 541.91MB 06 FAT16
/dev/hda3 preliminary any any 83 Linux
Then we boot into this preliminary system and go through the absolute minimum of configuration and makesure
that the scp package is installed. Unfortunately,this leavesuswithout network configuration. Wehav e to do this
by hand.
First we have toedit the file /etc/network/interfaces to configure the ethernet device eth0. Wehav e the static IP
address www.xxx.yyy.zzz and our gatewayiswww.xxx.yyy.ggg.
/etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static
address www.xxx.yyy.zzz
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast www.xxx.yyy.255
network www.xxx.yyy.0
gateway www.xxx.yyy.ggg
Nowwecan start the network by loading the kernel module for the ethernet card and starting the interface.
Manual start of the network:
#> modprobe eepro100
#> ifup eth0
Then we mount the first DOS partition c: (/dev/hda1) and download the archive ofthe hibernation tools from the
machine, where we have stored them.
Downloading the prepared hibernation tools:
#> mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
#> cd /mnt
#> scp "user@ip−nr−of−machine:ibm/*" .
Note: Weactually have touse the IP number as we have not configured the resolver for machine names.
Nowwereboot into FreeDOS and use fdisk to remove the preliminary linux partition /dev/hda3. Reboot into
FreeDOS. At last we are ready to launch phdisk.exe and create the hibernation partition.
Having sucessfully created our hibernation partition, we reboot anewinto the Debian installation system and
continue partitioning the hard disk. The current partition layout is:
Third preliminary partition layout:
Partition: Purpose: Intended: Actual: Type:
/dev/hda1 DOS 8MB 15.49MB 06 FAT12
/dev/hda2 DOS 512MB 541.91MB 06 FAT16