Re: Slink attempted clean install
"Scott K. Ellis" <storm@gate.net> writes:
> Just to touch on this, but Debian installed off an ATAPI CD drive with a
> BIOS that supports boot-from-CD (all Pentium class machines basically) is a
> ZERO floppy install. You can get away with 2 if you load the base system
> from NFS on another machine (you can also get away with 0 if you have a
> DOS/Windows partition to leave the base files on).
The documentation explaining how to install Debian seems to encourage
the many-floppies route, rather than treating it as a last resort.
Perhaps this is why Debian is generally perceived as needing a lot of
floppies.
Do you need more than 2 to boot from a non-booting ATAPI CDROM drive?
What are the plausible situations where a lot of floppies are needed?
cheers,
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