On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 11:22:56PM +1000, terryc wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 21:07:43 +0900 > Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > > Hi g4sra, > > > > g4sra via Dng writes: > > > > > <--snip--> > > > This is why Devuan's installer will ask\prompt you to insert > > > additional installation media such as a USB stick. There are just > > > too many Gigabytes of Drivers required to satisfy every corner > > > case, put the drivers your quirky hardware requires on a USB stick > > > and use it when prompted! I do not ever want to have to install an > > > OS from 31 removable media's ever again! (Windows NT > > > anybody?)._______________________________________________ > > I've done that once, but mostly it has been various versions of Novell > which thankfully are not that many as NT was. > > > > > Me waxes nostalgic and remembers installing Debian from 12 > > floppies ;-) -- > > Did it work? > > My installation didn't, so I then tried the Slackware floppies which > also didn't work.
By the time I switched to Debian (.9x release), the ATA cdroms were working with the kernel without modification. Before that, I would drive to Pullman, WA, where a friend was going to school, with a large pack of 3.5" floppies and a blank CD, since it would take too long at 2400 baud to download from where I lived. I would spend the weekend there, downloading the install set of Slackware with enough packages to be able to rebuild the kernel, and put the rest of the packages I needed onto the CD. I would bring the whole mess back home, get the base system up, modify the source of the kernel to recognize my CDROM drive, and then build the kernel, so I could finish setting it up on my shiny new 386DX. Friends would be angry with me, since I would do all this with a 12pack of beer, and not remember how I did it the next day. (The installation was done drunk, not the rest of it...) > Aaah, those were the days. Indeed...
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