PLIP install (was Re: Still no base tarball)
Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon-computing.com> writes:
> Aside: were it not for the flexibility of the Debian installtion process,
> I'd probably still be using slackware right now. I had previously been put
> off by the fact that stable appeared to be rather out-of-date, and the err,
> cough, interface to ds... cough... was a little unf... cough. I was able to
> install onto a 486-50 laptop with 4MB RAM using 7 floppies (created on a
> slackware box) followed by nfs over PLIP (no Adam, no network either). None
> of the other major distributions would install on that box *at all*. Having
> installed the system, and been forced to learn a little bit about dselect,
> I was converted.
I'm curious. Does PLIP work in the woody boot-floppies?
Are there things we could do to make installation via PLIP network
easier?
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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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