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Re: New installation from floppy and I have no network



Yes, you did miss step, I think.  I hope you have LAN connection since
you have NIC on system.  If your NIC is not connected to Internet, you
need to run ftp or http mirror of debian archive on some host of LAN 
since you have no CDROM on your system which yoiu are installing debian.

There should have been step where you can configure your system.  First
DHCP or not, then if fixed, proceed with installation.  This may be
after reboot.  Since you are doing 11 floppy deal.  Did you rebooted
system after base system install?  (I forgot details of install.)

If you use ide boot floppy they have network card compiled in.  You only
need 2 FD to do install and rest can be from network.  After everything,
you need to edit module to get system working with standard kernel.

I attach my recent woody install memo in which I used only potato boot disks.

Osamu

PS: Theoretically you can dpkg -i package by carring everything by
floppy.  But will you???

O Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:04:15PM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote:
> I was forced to install Debian from floppy images (base 1 - 11).
> 
> I went through the steps and I did not have a chance to
> configure a network.
> 
> Did I miss a step?
> 
> If I have only a floppy drive to get in new code, what are my
> options?
> 
> Thanks -- Randy
> 
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Install woody using potato boot disks 
ide-pci kernel on ide boot disk enables pci network cards.

 1. Get 3 potato disk set of IDE boot/root(/driver) disks
 2. Boot with FD
 3. Fdisk/fsck/mount swap, root, tmp, var, home, usr (no 2.0 support)
 4. Install OS from network. No need for driver disk(s)
 5. Configure driver (No action option)
 6. Install base system from network (base2_2.tgz)
 7. Configure base system
 8. Install lilo to /target and keep current multiboot mbr
 9. Reboot system (Lazy not to create FD)
10. MD5 yes, shadow yes, setup also user account
11. Edit source by hand (setup 2 entries, change "stable" to "testing")
12. Install advanced (dselect)
13. Select minimum set (exclude emacs, nvi, tex, telnet, talk(d),...)
14. Include mc, vim, ... (for convienience)
15. Install (download all...)
16. All configuration questions = y (replace current)
17. exim: select 2 for machine behind FW, 1 for internet machine. (XXX)
18. Never erase downloaded file, end smoothly.  Wow!
19. Check by "Select" console-* and lilo are from potato.  Heck, it works.
20. I see complain about "DESTROY" method. Annoying but testing.
21. Login to root, run dselect --expert, good
22. Reboot.  missing char-major-10-135 ? (rtc)  but fine
23. Compiled newer kernel with SMP. No more rtc issue.


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