"Scott K. Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just to touch on this, but Debian installed off an ATAPI CD drive with a > BIOS that supports boot-from-CD (all Pentium class machines basically) is a > ZERO floppy install. You can get away with 2 if you load the base system > from NFS on another machine (you can also get away with 0 if you have a > DOS/Windows partition to leave the base files on).
The documentation explaining how to install Debian seems to encourage the many-floppies route, rather than treating it as a last resort. Perhaps this is why Debian is generally perceived as needing a lot of floppies. Do you need more than 2 to boot from a non-booting ATAPI CDROM drive? What are the plausible situations where a lot of floppies are needed? cheers, -- __ \/ o\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh fetish club Permission \ / /\__/ Paul Crowley Dec 13 http://www.hedonism.demon.co.uk/permission /~\ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
