On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:12:58AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Mark van Walraven wrote on Fri Oct 26, 2001 um 01:24:48AM: > > > fit compiled-in, but basically everything else non-essential (SCSI, IDE, > > RAID, fat) as modules. > > VFAT is essential. There are people installing from downloaded archives, > stored on FAT. We are speaking about an allround setup system, not > something which can be used in fast-network environment only. You may > consider such installation methods as unimportant, but many people do > not. > Tmpfs? Debian should be installable on 12MB machines. With tmpfs as the > provisoric filesystem you don't have much space. Of course you could > rely on swap. But
I install Debian very often, for testing, production machines, testing installation CD, etc. I've used VFAT only 1 time, and now it isn't easy (it need a structure dists/testing/main/disks-i386/current, dists/testing/main/binary-i386...). I do most installation via CDROM. If I haven't CD drive i move the HD into another machine with CD drive. I haven't time to make floppies or copy files into a Windows HD, searching a machine with 32MB RAM and a CDROM is always more faster. 6-7 working floppies cost more than a CD drive, for me! ciao Michele -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
