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+The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ +
Chapter 2 - Getting and installing Debian GNU/Linux +

+ +

+The official document giving installation instructions is the Debian GNU/Linux +Installation Guide. We'll give some additional notes about getting +and installing Debian GNU/Linux here. +

+ +

2.1 What is the latest version of Debian?

+ +

+Currently there are three versions of Debian GNU/Linux: +

release 4.0, a.k.a. the `stable' distribution: +
+This is stable and well tested software, it changes if major security or +usability fixes are incorporated. +
+

the `testing' distribution: +
+This is where packages that will be released as the next `stable' are placed; +they've had some testing in unstable but they may not be completely fit for +release yet. This distribution is updated more often than `stable', but not +more often than `unstable'. +
+

the `unstable' distribution: +
+This is the version currently under development; it is updated continuously. +You can retrieve packages from the `unstable' archive on any Debian FTP site +and use them to upgrade your system at any time, but you may not expect the +system to be as usable or as stable as before - that's why it's called +`unstable'! +
+

+ +

+Please see How many Debian +distributions are there in the dists directory?, Section 5.2 +for more information. +

+ +

2.2 Are there package upgrades in `stable'?

+ +

+No new functionality is added to the stable release. Once a Debian version is +released and tagged `stable' it will only get security updates. That is, only +packages for which a security vulnerability has been found after the release +will be upgraded. All the security updates are served through security.debian.org. +

+ +

+Security updates serve one purpose: to supply a fix for a security +vulnerability. They are not a method for sneaking additional changes into the +stable release without going through normal point release procedure. +Consequently, fixes for packages with security issues will not upgrade the +software. The Debian Security Team will backport the necessary fixes to the +version of the software distributed in `stable' instead. +

+ +

+For more information related to security support please read the Security FAQ or the +Debian +Security Manual. +

+ +

2.3 Where/how can I get the Debian installation disks?

+ +

+You can get the installation disks by downloading the appropriate files from +one of the Debian +mirrors. +

+ +

+The installation system files are separated in subdirectories of +dists/stable/main directory, and the names of these subdirectories +correspond to your architecture like this: disks-arch +(arch is "i386", "sparc", etc, check the site +for an exact list). In each of these architecture subdirectories there can be +several directories, each for a version of the installation system, and the +currently used one is in the `current' directory (that's a symbolic link). +

+ +

+See the README.txt file in that directory for further +instructions. +

+ +

2.4 How do I install the Debian from CD-ROMs?

+ +

+Linux supports the ISO 9660 (CD-ROM) file system with Rock Ridge extensions +(formerly known as "High Sierra"). Several vendors provide Debian +GNU/Linux in this format. +

+ +

+Warning: When installing from CD-ROM, it is usually not a good idea to choose +dselect's cdrom access method. This method is usually very slow. +The mountable and apt methods, for example, are much +better for installing from CD-ROM (see dpkg-mountable, Section 8.2.5 +and apt-get, dselect and apt-cdrom, Section +8.2.2). +

+ +

2.5 Why does the official stable released CD-ROM contain symlinks for `frozen' and `unstable'? I thought this CD contains just `stable'!

+ +

+Official Debian CD images indeed contain symlinks like: +

+ +

+      /dists/frozen -> sarge/
+      /dists/stable -> sarge/
+      /dists/testing -> sarge/
+      /dists/unstable -> sarge/
+

+ +

+so that they work when your sources.list has an entry like +

+ +

+      deb cdrom:[<name as on cd label>]/ unstable main [...]
+

+ +

+. +

+ +

+The fact these symlinks are present does not mean the image is +`unstable' or `testing' or anything. Read the CD label in +/.disk/info to find out which Debian version it contains. This +information is also present in /README.txt on the CD. +

+ +

+Read http://www.debian.org/releases/ +to find out what the current `stable' and `testing' releases are. +

+ +

2.6 I have my own CD-writer, are there CD images available somewhere?

+ +

+Yes. To make it easier for CD vendors to provide high quality disks, we +provide the Official CD +images. +

+ +

2.7 Can I install it from a pile of floppy disks?

+ +

+First of all, a warning: whole Debian GNU/Linux is way too large to be +installed from media as small as a standard 1.44MB floppy disk - you may not +find installing from floppies a very pleasant experience. +

+ +

+Copy the Debian packages onto formatted floppy disks. Either a DOS, the native +Linux "ext2", or the "minix" format will do; one just has +to use a mount command appropriate to the floppy being used. +

+ +

+Using floppy disks has these complications: +

+
+Short MS-DOS file names: If you are trying to place Debian package files onto +MS-DOS formatted disks, you will find that their names are generally too long, +and do not conform to the MS-DOS 8.3 filename limitation. To overcome this, +you would have to use VFAT formatted disks, since VFAT supports longer file +names. +
+

+
+Large file sizes: Some packages are larger than 1.44 MBytes, and will not fit +onto a single floppy disk. To solve this problem, use the dpkg-split tool (see +dpkg-split, Section 7.1.5.2), +available in the tools directory on Debian mirrors. +
+

+ +

+You must have support in the kernel for floppy disks in order to read and write +to floppy disk; most kernels come with floppy drive support included in them. +

+ +

+To mount a floppy disk under the mount point /floppy (a directory +which should have been created during installation), use: +

+
```
+     mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy/
+
```
+ +
+if the floppy disk is in drive A: and has an MS-DOS file system, +
+

+
```
+     mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /floppy/
+
```
+ +
+if the floppy disk is in drive B: and has an MS-DOS file system, +
+

+
```
+     mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy/
+
```
+ +
+if the floppy disk is in drive A: and has an ext2 (i.e., a normal Linux) file +system. +
+

+ +

2.8 Can I get and install Debian directly from a remote Internet site?

+ +

+Yes. You can boot the Debian installation system from a set of files you can +download from our FTP site and its mirrors. +

+ +

+You can download a small CD image file, create a bootable CD from it, install +the basic system from it and the rest over the network. For more information +please see http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/. +

+ +

+You can also download even smaller floppy disk image files, create bootable +diskettes from them, start the installation procedure and get the rest of +Debian over the network. For more information, please see http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst. +

+ +