Debian splashy download

When the installer boots, you should be presented with a friendly graphical screen showing the Debian logo and a menu:. Bi-arch images additionally have a 64 bit variant for each install option, right below it, thus almost doubling the number of options. If you wish or need to add any boot parameters for either the installer or the kernel, press Tab.

This will display the default boot command for the selected menu entry and allow to add additional options. The help screens see below list some common possible options. Press Enter to boot the installer with your options; pressing Esc will return you to the boot menu and undo any changes you made.

To return to the boot menu after the help screens have been displayed, type 'menu' at the boot prompt and press Enter. All help screens have a boot prompt at which the boot command can be typed:. At this boot prompt you can either just press Enter to boot the installer with default options or enter a specific boot command and, optionally, boot parameters.

A number of boot parameters which might be useful can be found on the various help screens. If you do add any parameters to the boot command line, be sure to first type the boot method the default is install and a space before the first parameter e. The keyboard is assumed to have a default American English layout at this point. This means that if your keyboard has a different language-specific layout, the characters that appear on the screen may be different from what you'd expect when you type parameters.

Wikipedia has a schema of the US keyboard layout which can be used as a reference to find the correct keys to use. If you are using a system that has the BIOS configured to use serial console, you may not be able to see the initial graphical splash screen upon booting the installer; you may even not see the boot menu. I needed to display logo of a company in place of the kernel messages at boot time.

Your this tutorial saved me a lot of time. Thanks again. Some remarks: 1. The menu. I always check the menu. Just to make sure I did it correctly. Debian is distributed freely over Internet. You can download all of it from any of our mirrors.

The Installation Manual contains detailed installation instructions. And, the release notes can be found here. This page has options for installing Debian Stable. If you are interested in Testing or Unstable, visit our releases page. An official cloud image , built by the cloud team, can be used on:.

Some other changes are also needed to make dmcrypt and splashy both in initramfs work good. Let's start: Frame buffer: uvesafb module With the 2. So, the first thing to do is to get the kernel source.

You don't need to rebuild the whole package, just the module, but in any case, you will need a kernel build later to rebuild some other packages. Recompiling the kernel on your Eee PC requires a lot of free space and takes a long time. Therefore, we suggest you build it on another machine. FixMe : revise the following instructions to use the same Debian kernel tree that would be used with module-assistant, if possible. This will simplify things.