As much as I hate to loose a potential sale of CDs ..... The floppy images for a base install are on the CD. 16 images in all. ../current/images-144/ rescue*, root*, base14*
Phil. On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Dave McDonald wrote: > Neal H Walfield wrote: > > > > > Well, I don't have F3 CD-ROMS; I just have the F3 images. Yes I know > > > I was planning to NFS map the CD-ROM images (after mounting them with a > > > loopback iso9660 filesystem) from another machine, but I cannot > > > configure the network card. > > > > Why don't you just set up a translator? > > > > # settrans -acp /f3-main /hurd/isofs $HOME/images/f3-main.iso > > Well ... I'd love to. But then I'd have to get the images onto the Hurd > machine ... but then I don't have networking. Catch-22 I think. What do > you propose? I guess I could establish a serial connection - but what > file tranfer software would I run ... or then again there's floppies > (but I'm a cheapskate - I think I'd rather buy the CD's). > > I can see that you presume I'm also running another O/S on this machine, > but this is not the case. > > Still, you've got me thinking. I imagine that if I actually boot from a > Debian Linux rescue/root/drivers disk set, I could get networking > working, and then I could transfer the files without needing to reserve > HDD space for another O/S. Kinda attractive to a cheapskate like me - it > would still be cheaper to get networking happenning with what I > currently already have. > > I guess at this point, I'd suggest to Philip Charles that including a > couple of extra floppies in the boot floppy set would be fantastic. But > I think Philip has to balance this with legitimate concerns about the > size of the images and the number of floppies needed. > > Thanks, > > Dave McDonald > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
