The thing here is that I am starting with 3 totaly blank hd's. I really don't want to put an msdos partition on any of them, I'd like to do this install without using ANY M$ software in the process. I already downloaded all ten base disks, the rescue disk, the driver disks, and the root disk. The download was done on another linux system (slink). Except for the fact that the company firewall is probably running NT, the setup non - M$. So I guess I will need to run through all 10 base disks to perform the install. I suppose I could also burn a CDR with ONLY the base system on it (never mind the fact that the only CD burners in the company are on Windows machines).
I wonder just how small a system needs to be installed to get to the point where the rest can be bootsrapped in over the web? (Hmmm the LRP fits on a floppy....) >Yes, basically. You will need to at least have the >rescue, root, and >the three drivers floppies. The base system you can >put somewhere on >the harddrive (can installation system mount msdos >partitions? I had >the base_2_2.tgz (?) in an ext2fs partition). Ideally, >you must be >able to even read the drivers floppies' images from >the harddrive, but >it didn't work for me (I tried 10 different ways of >specifying path to >them... I don't know where exactly the installation >proggie wants to >find those images. I gave up and installed the drivers >off floppies). I just did a similar setup. After you set the base system up, you can boot into it and use apt/dselect to install the rest via ftp/http. I ended up using 5 floppies altogether. ===== Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com