Re: Debian Distro on Floppies?
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:27:11PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:11:12PM -0400, Ken Clarke (kclarke@griffincompany.com) wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to find a Linux Distro that can still be obtained for
> > floppy installation. Yes I know about just hooking up a CD-ROM drive,
> > a modem, or a null-modem connection to this ancient machine I'm
> > working with.
>
> Swap the harddrive to another case with net and/or CDROM access.
>
> You can install from floppy, but the amount of disk-swapping is
> rediculous.
Actually, it's not that bad now. If you have a decent net conection you
only need two floppies: rescue.bin and root.bin. Once you get to the
second floppy (root.bin) you're asked if you would like to install over
the network. The URL is set up already, as well. Couldn't ask for a
simpler set up.
-Rob
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