Re: Floppy installation

[Russell King <rjkfsm@bluebottle.com>]

He said he doesn't have a NIC. How would he get the packages?

v/r
Russ


Laurent CARON wrote:

> jean-jaques@women-at-work.org a écrit :
>
> > I have a pretty old Toshiba Sattelite laptop. It doesn't have a NIC 
> > and it
> > doesn't have a cd drive either. I was wondering if it is possible to 
> > get a
> > complete floppy installation of a debian system. I already have the boot
> > floppy and the root floppy.
> > It would probably be good if it is an older version, because the 
> > laptop has
> > only 16MB Ram and the new debian installer requires 24MB.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
> >  
> You can boot a netinstall with a floppy (packages are fetched over the 
> network).
>
> Laurent