Alternatively, a PLIP (parallel port IP) link to another sytem might
also work.
I'd probably vote for an HD swap myself.
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 05:14:53PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
>
> You might try coping the files to floppies that have
> been formated on the target machine's drive. Or
> transfer the target machine's floppy drive to the
> machine doing the copying and then move it back to the
> tarket machine. Methinks floppy interchange may be a
> problem.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> To all,
>
> I have tried to install Debian from floppy disks several times on an old
> IBM 486 ps2 machine. The machine boots fine with the rescue disk fine.
> The point at which the install fails is during the mounting of the
> rescue disk to continue with the base install. I have made several
> new rescue floppys thinking it may be the media. I have only chosen
> to install from floppy because the machine has no cdrom and only one
> isa slot for expansion. It does have a 300 mb hard and 8 mb of ram.
> Thanks for any help in advance.
>
>
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