Re: Install from single floppy

[Patrick Colbeck <pat.colbeck@bashq.org>]

>>>>> "Carl" == Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> writes:
Would have taken a lot of floppies .....  Luckily I have found a
packet driver for my Xircom card and am currently ftping all the
required files to the Libretto using CUFTP.

If anyone else is going to try this be aware that FreeDos doesnt work
with Xircom packet drivers, they won't find a free IRQ but if you boot
from a system disk formatted with Win98 they work fine apart from the
fact that they then kill off your floppy drive but at this point you
really dont need it.

Now to have some fun ...

Thanks

Pat

    Carl> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:57:36PM +0100, Patrick Colbeck
    Carl> wrote:
    >> I am going with the DOS partition option. I have installed
    >> FreeDos in a little 50 mb partition and that works OK. Now I
    >> have to get the reuired Debian files on there (loadlin kernel
    >> etc) and it looks like the best way to do this is via NFS over
    >> PLIP by booting the Libretto off a tomsrbt rescue disk and NFS
    >> mounting my other laptop over PLIP !
    >>
    >> So I am off to buy a parralel null cable on the way home !

    Carl> Why?  If FreeDOS recognizes your floppy drive, you can copy
    Carl> the files onto the DOS partition using floppies (or a single
    Carl> floppy if you're really short).  -- Carl Fink carlf@dm.net


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