Re: Floppy installation
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 22:50 +0200, TOPMANN (Torben Pollmann) wrote:
> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > You can boot a netinstall with a floppy (packages are fetched over the
> > network).
> >
> > Laurent
>
> Laurent, did you read the question at all?
>
> I doubt your answer will help in JJs case.
>
> @JJ: Dont be disappointed by such kind of answer. People tend to not
> read. Instead get your hands on DamnSmallLinux or muLinux. These will
> help as you can install them from disk - and on Low-Ram machines.
Also, if the laptop has usb ports, the cost of usb cd's has gotten
fairly low. (As have various usb-based networking options...) (If not,
ignore me...I'm new. :) )
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