debian boot disks?
hey all,
so i tried for the first time to pull up a system without any cdrom,
just boot disks, and a locally mirrored debian distribution on FTP.
i got three disks, resuce, boot, and drivers_1. rescue seems to be the
only bootable one, and i get to a lilo prompt with options "linux",
"floppy0", "restore", and "ramdisk0". however, all of these yield a
"Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue," after
which the boot sector is read again. i figure that from this point,
the root disk is needed, but i could not, for the sake of anything,
convince debian to boot off the disks from the various ftp sites. any
hints?
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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