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Re: Booting from a floppy to install debian



On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:52:40PM -0600, Marvin Aguero wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I have decided to give debian GNU/Linux a chance. So, I downloaded the "woody" Official i386 Binary-1 image from the web and burned the CD. So far so good, the problem is that machine I am trying to install it at is quite old and doesn't boot from a CD.
> 
> How can I create a boot floppy to install debian from there? Can you guys give me a hand on this?

There are binary images of the floppy disks necessary to boot and
install Debian on the CDs. If you have a working unixoid system you can
run:
dd if=image-name of=/dev/fd0

in any case this is well described in the installation manual in the
section about boot media and boot floppies.

Bijan

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