Hello Debian Hackers, here is a further dependent question:
Although I am not new in Linux-stuff, and although a participate some GNU projects or even HP and VAX Linux projects (device driver development), I am not able to fully understand the debian installation (sorry). To get a fully naked installation (empty machine), I need the current rescue floppy, containing SILO and kernel. This floppy isinstrumented to ask for a root floppy. The root floppy download from the web is one, which is only possible to use for locally installation, for example for CD ROM. But which floppy or image I have to use for the "standard" network installation via ftp ? I cannot find it ! The drivers are only drivers (I think), the base system is the tar ball for a root file system (debootstrap cannot unpack it on a i386 system, as I want to install a SPARC machine). Which root floppy I have to use ??? I already installed debian from CD on a HP-PA-RISC machine, and I updated a Athlon-PC from RedHat to debian via debootstrap (which worked quite well). So I miss the cross-install between different target types (see mail before), I missed the offline install for a root file system on a NFS server for NFS-Root clients, and I miss the default procedure for network install (root floppy). I hope you can give some hints here ... Christoph P. -- ------------------------------------------------------- private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
