Re: Base floppies for Woody
> Hi,
>
> I am in the unfortunate situation of attempting to install Debian onto
> my new IBM laptop (X22 - very nice). I have a base 2.2 CD and 6 CDs of
> Sid, which I used to install Sid onto my desktop.
>
> However, the kernel on the Potato CD is too old to boot on the laptop
> (it stops after loading the md driver), so I thought I'd use a floppy
> disk from Woody. I found just what I wanted - a set of floppy images
> which support XFS so / can be a XFS partition. However, it then demands
> to read packages from Woody... I can't do a network install as this
> network card is not very supported yet (IIRC, RH72 is the only distrib
> to support it out of the box).
>
> So, where can I download a set of floppy disk images for Woody so that I
> can install the base system onto my laptop? Once that is done I'll get
> out my Sid CDs but I need to bootstrap something capable.
>
Not sure I fully understand what you are looking for but you might
consider using an ftp mirror to get
/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current
and the ones from
/debian/pool/main/b/base*
> I don't care if they are testing images, or beta or whatever. Just as
> long as they work - I don't want to put RH72 on my laptop!
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Ross
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