On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 17:10, Christian Leber wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:04:35PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > I am working on a very difficult Job in near east ans need the > > Floppy-Installation. > > Customer lives in a little cave without internet, cd-roms, usb, firewire, > free ide/scsi connectors or ethernet?
> If it's absolutly the only way to install with floppies, then i would > make the install on a computer that can access some real medium and then > tar.bz2 everything to a stack of floppies. > > btw. ZIP drives are really cool, they are 100 MB in size and do about > 100 kb/s when connected to parallel port... ok, this was nice in 1995 > How much memory does the machine have? I did a test install with d-i some months ago, and success fully installed via plip. This is why we have plip-modules ... for parallel port networking. I had planned on boosting the floppy support in d-i to allow a full-floppy install on the i386 machine I was using (this was before the i386 support was dropped); I realised that plip networking was simpler than 140 floppies. I haven't tested it in months, though. BTW, I also had an Irda install working, at least to loading d-i modules over net stage: irda from one laptop to another. Again, not tested since around March/April, but should work. Needs documentation, though. - Alastair McKinstry > Christian Leber > > -- > "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, > nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (Aurelius Augustinus) > Translation: <http://gnuhh.org/work/fsf-europe/augustinus.html> > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
