Re: Booting from a floppy to install debian

[André Carezia <andre@carezia.eng.br>]

Em Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:52:40 -0600, Marvin Aguero <maguero@racsa.co.cr>
escreveu:

> 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?

You probably want to create 2 floppies, from

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/bf2.4/rescue.bin>

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/bf2.4/root.bin

Read more at documentation:

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-create-floppy

[]s,

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André Carezia
Eng. de Telecomunicações
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