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

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-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. -

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2.1 What is the latest version of Debian?

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

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2.2 Are there package upgrades in `stable'?

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-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. -

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-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. -

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

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

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

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-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). -

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

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

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-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. -

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-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). -

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

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-Official Debian CD images indeed contain symlinks like: -

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-      /dists/frozen -> sarge/
-      /dists/stable -> sarge/
-      /dists/testing -> sarge/
-      /dists/unstable -> sarge/
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-so that they work when your sources.list has an entry like -

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

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

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

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

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

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-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. -

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-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. -

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-Using floppy disks has these complications: -

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-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. -
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-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. -
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-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. -

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

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```
-     mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy/
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```
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-if the floppy disk is in drive A: and has an MS-DOS file system, -
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```
-     mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /floppy/
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```
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-if the floppy disk is in drive B: and has an MS-DOS file system, -
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```
-     mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy/
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```
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-if the floppy disk is in drive A: and has an ext2 (i.e., a normal Linux) file -system. -
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2.8 Can I get and install Debian directly from a remote Internet site?

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

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-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/. -

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-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. -

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