Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Nov 14 wrote: From: Mark Constable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all, just wondering if it's possible to get at the 1440 boot and root > disks without having to use floppies... The alternatives are all more difficult. Just peel the labels off some of that old DOS software...
That is certainly the most straight forward solution.. however there is a wall here that's a bit annoying.. why do I have to resort to a floppy based kick-boot when I pulled everything off the net ? Surely it should be possible to cd to an empty partition, type "make debian-net" and go have a cuppa. A few people have tried an upgrade-in-place from Slackware to Debian. The result is that not every old Slackware file gets overwritten, and you end up with a "combination" system. Debian's really only designed to upgrade itself, not other distributions. In my case, I have 500 meg drive (big deal, another challenge however) and half it's clear ready to accept another dist... redo lilo and boot into another world... if all is well them rm -rf the previous dist's partitons. But to get to the above stage I need a working debian "base" setup... --markc
