Re: install on new computer; no cd available
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:28:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote:
> > 1. Download and make floppies. Is there any forcast when Etch
> > will have floppy-install working? With woody, I tested that
> > I could boot from floppy then install base off the zip.
>
you can test floppy images using 2.6.17 kernel here:
http://www-timc.imag.fr/Sylvain.Ferriol/debian/d-i/i386/current
> I don't anticipate etch shipping with floppy images, since the changes
> needed for that have been blocked by 6 months or so by klibc changes,
> with little apparent progress.
bootfloppy needs cpio which is not in klibc. i reduced the source of cpio package but it is under GPL and klibc is under
BSD. so maks is coding a new cpio (called 'unpack') for klibc
sylvain
>
> Sarge can be installed from floppies.
>
> --
> see shy jo
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