Re: confused about woody installation floppies
I've installed woody over the network and all I needed were 6 floppy
images: rescue.bin, root.bin, driver-1.bin, driver-2.bin, driver-3.bin
and driver-4.bin
Paul
> Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> >
> > I'm probably missing something here I should have read, but my
understanding was
> > that there weren't base images for woody. But now i see on the ftp
site a whole
> > directory fo 20 base image files for 1.44 floppy. was this a change
or did I
> > misunderstand something?
> > Thanks.
>
> I think you need those files to get the minimum functionality of
> automated package installation using dselect and other things.
>
> I downloaded all these on the one file using a windows pc,
> burnt it to a cd, then did the rest of the debian install
> much quicker:
>
> 11.2.3.4.2 Base System archive tarball
> If you are not limited to diskettes, choose this file.
> .../base-images-current/basedebs.tar
>
>
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