TOPMANN (Torben Pollmann) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Laurent CARON wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit : > > > >> I have a pretty old Toshiba Sattelite laptop. It doesn't have a NIC > >> and it > >> doesn't have a cd drive either. I was wondering if it is possible to > >> get a > >> complete floppy installation of a debian system. I already have the boot > >> floppy and the root floppy. > > > > You can boot a netinstall with a floppy (packages are fetched over the > > network). > > Laurent, did you read the question at all?
What a rude answer! Yes, it can be done. It's going to take a while over POTS dialup, but it's certainly possible. If you can hang it off a phone line you don't care about being tied up for a few days, it'll work. Is there no way of getting a NIC in this machine? If that could be done, you could slurp it all from another local machine that has a faster connection. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/autospam.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
