I agree, the debian-basesystem holds enough for you to play with. I don't know if it holds vi or vim or vni, it probably has elvis-tiny on it. So that's something you might want to upload from the net. That will do fine, if you include the pcmcia-cs packages as well, network support is easily done as well.
Have fun on your journey and merry Christmas. On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Rob wrote: > > Hello Samuel, > > > I would install all the base floppies at the following FTP address: > > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03/images-1.44/ > > I don't happen to have my potato CD handy, so I can't verify > if these files exist on the official CD set.. > > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:58:33AM -0500, Samuel Halperin wrote: > > > > I don't need anything fancy, but something that boots from the > > hard disk and lets me write text in something small like VI.. well > > that would be just perfect. I can worry about network support > > and X and everything else later. > > <snip> > > > The toshiba has a PCMCIA floppy drive which I will be installing > > from. Again, I only really need a small text editor at this point, > > and a way to install a small kernel to the hard disk, since I don't > > want to take the floppy with me. > > > > Thanks for any help > > HTH, > > Rob Helmer > Namodn > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----------- Andor Demarteau [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------
