November 2007
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642 pages
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16.8. Network Installation of a Debian System
Debian Linux is the largest Linux distribution that exists, supporting more applications and hardware platforms than any other Linux distribution. Currently, a complete download requires 21 CDs or 3 DVDs. Of course, you don't need all those disks to do a basic installation, but it's still a big old beast. You prefer to boot with a small installation image, and then perform the rest of the installation over the network, rather than trying to download gigabytes of ISOs. How do you this?
Solution
Debian has long supported network installations. You can get boot images for CD-ROM and USB flash drive. It also supports PXE netbooting, which we'll get to in the next recipe. Visit Debian.org (http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/netinst) to download network installation images for CD-ROM.
You need dial-up, wired Ethernet, or a wireless interface with native Linux support. Don't even bother with a wireless interface that requires ndiswrapper to run on Linux; it won't work for the installer.
The netinst image contains the base Debian installation and weighs in at about 160 MB.
The businesscard image is about 32 MB, and has just the bare necessities for starting the installation.
The official file integrity checksums are posted on the download page. Always confirm the checksum before using the downloads:
$ sha1sum debian-40r0-i386-businesscard.iso
641e67f6968ca08217f52f6fbe7dda1a8e6072ec debian-40r0-i386-businesscard.isoUse your favorite CD-writing software, ...
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