Re: Slink attempted clean install
On 8 Dec 1998, Paul Crowley wrote:
> "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?
The primary use for the 8 floppy install is a single, non-lan-connected
machine without a CD drive. If you have an ATAPI CD, or an DOS parition
you're going to save, you can get by with 0-1 disks, 2 if you have a
propriatary CD (like an old soundblaster one). You can also use 2 disks
if you have a supported ethernet card and a local NFS server.
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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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