On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:43:24PM -0500, Flood, Richard wrote: > I am in the process of installing Debian on a laptop using only floppy > disks. I went ahead and installed the base system with floppies and then > realized that these floppy images expected me to have a CD-ROM or something > to install from dpkg. Any guidance on where I can find the other floppy > images for the distribution? I realize I will probably have to buy > floppies, but I can't really buy a CD-ROM for this laptop at this time. It can be done without CD drives. The base system really is small, but it allows for more to be installed. > I downloaded some .deb files to my Win98 desktop thinking I might be able to > rawrite them onto floppies and at least get gcc and make on the laptop, but > I cannot read them into the Linux system from floppy. > > Any leads would be greatly appreciated. The base system was meant to be small, and some packages are large. You don't rawrite .debs onto floppies, you copy them. What I used to do, before I could connect this system to the network, was that I had a small FAT16 partition at the beginning of the drive, and use pkzip on the windoze machine to split large (> 1.6 meg) archives (by spanning floppies), and boot this system with a boot disk containing pkzip, then "decompressing" (the contents of the debs is already compressed) to join the little file bits together. Of course, I just copied the smaller debs. -- Seneca seneca-cunningham@rogers.com
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