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If the installer does not find the ISO image, you may try to use http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz , the standard Lenny boot image. Note: If the installer does not find the ISO image, you may try to use http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz , the standard Lenny boot image with the ISO linked above.

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Introduction

While currently, the recommended way to install is using our custom installer as described in ../../HowTo/Install, the custom installer is a minimal installer and is therefore missing some things that the standard installer includes. If you need crypto (LUKS), LVM or other support during the install, the standard installer will work to install a base system.

Select stable Lenny or weekly snapshot Squeeze installer

The current Lenny release candidate now supports both atl1e and atl2, so installing over ethernet should work on all models with these chipsets. If you have a newer model with atl1c ethernet, either install Squeeze over wifi with the weekly snapshot installer, or else do an install without a network (as per below but use the first DVD image instead of netinst image) and get the network working later with a kernel upgrade. For more details, see the wiki page for your ../../Model.

Preparation

Lenny (stable) system using the standard installer:

  1. Download the Lenny netinst ISO image from http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/debian-installer/

  2. Download boot.img.gz from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz

  3. Using an empty USB device, do

# zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX     # where sdX is the device your USB media is using
  1. Mount the USB device (i.e. /dev/sdX, not /dev/sdX1) and copy the netinstall ISO image to it.
  2. Reboot and boot netbook the USB drive

Updated Lenny backports d-i *Use at own risk* : http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/

Note: If the installer does not find the ISO image, you may try to use http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz , the standard Lenny boot image with the ISO linked above.

Squeeze (testing) using an updated d-i

  1. Download the Squeeze netinst ISO image from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

  2. Download boot.img.gz from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz (or, for amd64 machines, http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/ )

  3. Using an empty USB device, do

# zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX     # where sdX is the device your USB media is using
  1. Mount the USB device (i.e. /dev/sdX, not /dev/sdX1) and copy the netinstall ISO image to it.
  2. Reboot and boot netbook the USB drive

Note: If the above links files aren't there just wait. The images must match otherwise the install won't find the ISO, you will get kernel mismatch problems, or it just won't boot.

Squeeze installation using Unetbootin to do a full install (Text install)

Requirements:
1GB or larger USB drive (FAT32; active/boot/bootable)
Unetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/)

Preparation (linux or windows)

  1. Download files (if the links are dead, check back later)

Latest daily built netinst ISO image:

Latest usb boot image:

Pick only one from below:
debian-testing-i386-CD-1.iso (GNOME)
or
debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso (KDE)
or
debian-testing-i386-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso (XFCE or LXDE) Recommended for netbooks

  1. Run unetbootin to make USB drive bootable

*Select "Custom"
*Kernel = the vmlinuz file
*Initrd = the initrd.gz file
*Click "OK" to copy the files to the drive

  1. Copy the contents of boot.img.gz to USB drive

Linux:
Use gunzip to extract the boot.img

$ mkdir /media/iso
$ mount -o loop boot.img /media/iso

Copy the entire contents of the mounted boot.img to the usb drive overwriting files.

Windows:
Use 7zip to extract boot.img from boot.img.gz
Use DAEMON Tools, Virtual ?CloneDrive, MagicISO, Alcohol 52%, or whatever to mount the boot.img file
Copy the entire contents of the mounted boot.img to the usb drive overwriting files.

  1. Copy netinst ISO and a ***RENAMED*** main ISO

For GNOME: debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso debian-testing-i386-CD-1.iso.bak (add .bak or anything)

Renaming the file is to stop the installer from using it.

(Yes, you can omit the netinst ISO completely and it will install the base system okay. Gnome/KDE/Xfce/LXDE not so much. Anything beyond the base system was hit or miss on what installed and what didn't. For me Gnome installed but Xorg did not.)

  1. Reboot and install the base system. Skip the (skip what?)
  2. Reboot into new system, mount the usb drive, mount the main ISO, install the desktop environment.

e.g. GNOME
$ su
$ mkdir /media/isodrive
$ mkdir /media/iso
$ mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/isodrive  (replace sdb1 with your drive)
$ mount -o loop /media/isodrive/debian-testing-i386-CD-1.iso.bak /media/iso    (You can leave the .bak or whatever you put)
$ nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Add:
deb file:///media/iso testing main
(notice the three /'s)

$ aptitude update
$ aptitude install gnome-desktop-environment
  1. Reboot or start login manager (/etc/init.d/gdm start) or enter startx

Variation for Models without Networking

If the installer does not support wired or wireless networking (as is the case for the 1001HA) create a bootable USB device with enough space for the first debian install CD (not the net installer!) This should work with any large enough USB key already formatted as vfat.

  1. Mount the installer image using the local loop.

gunzip boot.img.gz
mount boot.img /mnt -o loop  # where /mnt is your chosen mount point
  1. Copy the contents of the boot image to your usb device along with your installation iso and a kernel image deb which does support your network devices.
  2. Unmount the USB drive
  3. Install syslinux on the USB drive

syslinux /dev/sdX # where /dev/sdX is your usb device
  1. Use fdisk to set the boot flag.

fdisk /dev/sdX   # use "a" to set boot flag and "w" to write

Once you have completed the basic installation, use "dpkg -i" to install the kernel deb that you put on the usb stick, reboot, configure your network and continue using aptitude as normal.

Installation

  1. Boot the eeePC using the USB device (press ESC during boot)
  2. Follow the installer instructions.
  3. Install the eeepc-acpi-scripts package for best results (additional hotkey support, etc. not provided out of the box with base Debian install).

Installing wifi driver

Lenny

  1. Add our repository and do an apt-get update after that.

  2. Install the appropriate wifi driver for your model. Consult the page for your model linked from ../../Models for details.

Squeeze

The kernel in Squeeze should already include a wifi driver for your model, except as indicated in ../../Models where no driver is yet available in Debian, so our repository is no longer needed.

Configuration

After installing the base system and wifi drivers, you will need to configure the system for wifi, webcam, hotkeys, etc. to work. On Squeeze, some of these steps may no longer be necessary.