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Re: install



>On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
>Mark put forth on 12/30/2009 3:12 PM:
> On 2009-12-30 at 12:25:05 -0500, softfox@catholic.org
> <mailto:softfox@catholic.org> wrote:
>> I am on the Debian site.
>> It is not really clear which file is to be used
>> to boot from a 3.5 floppy.
> Would hard drive booting work in this case?  I've looked at the Debian
> Installation Manual section before as this interests me but couldn't
> quite make sense of it with the information provided
> (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en).  Seems
> like booting to a Live CD (even Ubuntu would work here), downloading the
> boot files and installation .iso to a separate partition on the hdd and
> booting from that might work, does that make sense to anyone else?
>
>The OP asked for floppy boot install, the simplest method ever, and now you
>recommend this as an option?  I'm guessing the OP wanted "simple".

Sometimes this email list is quite entertaining :)

Mark

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