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Re: Bug#222429: installation-reports: problems with floppy images (boots only partially)



On 2003-11-29, Holger Krause <burnit@gmx.net> wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> Booting with bootfloppy-image.img seemed to be ok, though I couldn't see
> anything about the harddisk. I was asked to insert the second floppy then.
> The article mentioned above said to use net_drivers-image.img as second
> floppy, but the system obviously did not recognize the disk after inserting
> it in the drive. Instead it activated the drive approximatly every five
> seconds and printed an additional dot on the screen. The md5sums of the
> downloaded images were OK, and I used

You have to boot from bootfloppy-image.img and insert floppy-image.img 
as the second floppy.

If you don't have a rare network card, you won't need 
net_drivers-image.img at all.

Please close this bug. 

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