• InstallingEtchStepByStep

What is "Installing Etch Step-By-Step" ?

Note to Readers

• Don't hesitate to add a question to "Question section".

Mailing lists and IRC channels (see DebianSupport) are better/faster place to ask a question, however wiki pages are persistent, organized and accessible (any www browser will do).

Site Navigation

To navigate those "Installing Etch Step-By-Step" page, use the purple navigation bar at the top of the screen..

Note to Contributors

When you write something, assume that:

• The reader is new to Linux - although the content should be useful to advanced users too.

AND

• The reader has a basic knowledge of one of : Windows or Linux (any distro) or MacOS : i.e The user has a rough idea of what is RAM, Hard-Disk, administrator... Do not assume that the user know what are : "root" (Linux specific), a "group" (many SOHO user probably don't have a clue about it), "TCP" (too technical), a "port", an "UID" (Linux specific), "/dev", "/etc", a "terminal", etc.

New Page

• Use InstallingDebianStepByStepTemplate

The pages are grouped according to the following scheme

 InstallingDebianStepByStep/Planning/*
 InstallingDebianStepByStep/BootMedia/*
 InstallingDebianStepByStep/DiBoot/*
 InstallingDebianStepByStep/LanguageAndKeyboard/*
 InstallingDebianStepByStep/DiNetwork/*
 InstallingDebianStepByStep/Partitioning/*
 InstallingDebianStepByStep/SelectPackages/*
 InstallingDebianStepByStep/Bootloader/*

Screen Shots

• Debian-installer's GUI has a "Screenshot" button (read ScreenShots)

• Another way to make snapshot of Debian-Installer is to run d-i in a virtual machine. I use qemu.
  To make a screenshot in qemu, switch to qemu "monitor" page (Press Alt-F2), then type screendump filename.ppm.

The image can then be converted using imagemagick (pkg imagemagick):

identify *.ppm
boot_install.ppm PNM 720x400 DirectClass 844kb 
boot_installgui.ppm PNM 640x480 DirectClass 900kb 
fb0ChooseLanguage.ppm PNM 800x600 DirectClass 1.4mb

The image should be resized, its width remains within 266 and 360 pixelx.

# To resize 800x600 images :
convert fb0ChooseLanguage.ppm -resize 33% fb0ChooseLanguage.gif
# To resize 720x400 images :
convert boot_install.ppm -resize 50% boot_install.gif
# To resize 640x480 images :
convert boot_installgui.ppm -resize 50% boot_installgui.gif

Attach Screenshots All screen shots (for all InstallingEtchStepByStep/* pages) should be attached to the current page (i.e InstallingEtchStepByStep).

Frequently Asked Questions

If you have a question about the Installation step described above, don't hesitate to add your question in #NewQuestions below.

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