From 1f380d96c9262f651b6c53f0c390b2d696adb70e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frans Pop Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:38:19 +0000 Subject: - Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. - Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation. - Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get. --- en/appendix/chroot-install.xml | 21 +++++++++++---------- en/appendix/files.xml | 6 +++--- en/appendix/plip.xml | 27 ++++++++++----------------- 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) (limited to 'en') diff --git a/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml b/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml index aa15b8dc4..aacc62271 100644 --- a/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml +++ b/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ or at least 300MB if you plan to install X. -To create file systems on your partitions. For example, to create an +Create file systems on your partitions. For example, to create an ext3 file system on partition /dev/hda6 (that's our example root partition): @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ manually before proceding with the next stage. Install <command>debootstrap</command> -The tool that the Debian installer uses, which is recognized as the +The utility used by the Debian installer, and recognized as the official way to install a Debian base system, is debootstrap. It uses wget and ar, but otherwise depends only on @@ -357,15 +357,16 @@ interface name (eth0, eth1, etc.) that you expect. To configure your locale settings to use a language other than -English, install the locales support package and configure it: +English, install the locales support package +and configure it: -# apt-get install locales +# aptitude install locales # dpkg-reconfigure locales -NOTE: Apt must be configured beforehand by creating a sources.list and -running apt-get update. +NOTE: apt must be configured beforehand by creating +a sources.list and running aptitude update. Before using locales with character sets other than ASCII or latin1, please consult the appropriate localization HOWTO. @@ -387,7 +388,7 @@ and a boot loader. Identify available pre-packaged kernels with Then install your choice using its package name. -# apt-get install kernellinux-image-&kernelversion;-arch-etc +# aptitude install kernellinux-image-&kernelversion;-arch-etc @@ -398,9 +399,9 @@ Then install your choice using its package name. To make your &debian; system bootable, set up your boot loader to load -the installed kernel with your new root partition. Note that debootstrap -does not install a boot loader, though you can use apt-get inside your -Debian chroot to do so. +the installed kernel with your new root partition. Note that +debootstrap does not install a boot loader, though you +can use aptitude inside your Debian chroot to do so. diff --git a/en/appendix/files.xml b/en/appendix/files.xml index b8facd70e..a4ec9d2bd 100644 --- a/en/appendix/files.xml +++ b/en/appendix/files.xml @@ -147,8 +147,8 @@ will re-connect the mouse in software without restarting X. -If gpm is disabled or not installed with some reason, make sure to set X to -read directly from the mouse device such as /dev/psaux. For details, refer +If gpm is disabled or not installed for some reason, make sure to set X to +read directly from a mouse device such as /dev/psaux. For details, refer to the 3-Button Mouse mini-Howto at /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/3-Button-Mouse.gz, man gpm, @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ is (temporarily) required in /var. -The Desktop task will install both the Gnome and KDE +The Desktop task will install both the GNOME and KDE desktop environments. diff --git a/en/appendix/plip.xml b/en/appendix/plip.xml index 0946d0ae0..a8acd8e76 100644 --- a/en/appendix/plip.xml +++ b/en/appendix/plip.xml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ -This section explains how to install &debian; on a computer without +This section explains how to install &debian; on a computer without an Ethernet card, but with just a remote gateway computer attached via a Null-Modem cable (also called Null-Printer cable). The gateway computer should be connected to a network that has a Debian mirror @@ -100,6 +100,15 @@ echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Boot the installation media. The installation needs to be run in expert mode; enter expert at the boot prompt. +If you need to set paramenters for kernel modules, you also need to +do this at the boot prompt. For example, to boot the installer and +set values for the io and irq options +for the parport_pc module, enter the following at the boot prompt: + + +expert parport_pc.io=0x378 parport_pc.irq=7 + + Below are the answers that should be given during various stages of the installation. @@ -134,26 +143,10 @@ show this list. -Prompt for module parameters: Yes - - - - Because no network card was detected/selected earlier, the installer will ask you to select a network driver module from a list. Select the plip module. - - - -Additional parameters for module parport_pc: -io=0x378 irq=7 - - - - -Additional parameters for module plip: leave empty - -- cgit v1.2.3