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Re: A Challenge...



Floppy is showing some signs of life..

Which Boot/Root images do I use?  Keep in mind this is a PCMCIA floppy drive, so it might not recognise a second disk.

 

Sam



 

>From: Rob
>To: Samuel Halperin
>CC: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: A Challenge...
>Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 01:20:40 -0800
>
>
>Hello Samuel,
>
>
>I would install all the base floppies at the following FTP address:
>
>ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03/images-1.44/
>
>I don't happen to have my potato CD handy, so I can't verify
>if these files exist on the official CD set..
>
>On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:58:33AM -0500, Samuel Halperin wrote:
> >
> > I don't need anything fancy, but something that boots from the
> > hard disk and lets me write text in something small like VI.. well
> > that would be just perfect. I can worry about network support
> > and X and everything else later.
>
>
>
> > The toshiba has a PCMCIA floppy drive which I will be installing
> > from. Again, I only really need a small text editor at this point,
> > and a way to install a small kernel to the hard disk, since I don't
> > want to take the floppy with me.
> >
> > Thanks for any help
>
>HTH,
>
>Rob Helmer
>Namodn


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