On 9/1/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en
http://archive.progeny.com/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current//images/floppy/
you wil need between 2 and four images depending what you are trying to
achieve.
you need boot and root as a minimum, then cd-drivers or net-drivers
depending where you want to go from there.
what is your aim? what is your reason for choosing floppies? generally
they are the last choice after all the others. sometimes though they
really are the only way.
but don't ask to use the same one in a month or two, it'll be corrupted.
and out of date, and mislabelled, and lost.
or is that just me?
I have a PC which is totally blank and I need some sort of starting point, this seemed the most obvious.
Basically I have my main use computer currently running debian with a DVD player and a CD writer (separate), and a spare CDROM (that I ended up trying to stick in the other one, see later) and a non working floppy drive, and the P1 has only a (I assume) working floppy. I tried putting the afore mentioned CDROM in but it didn't seem to be able to tell it was there, and I have NO idea how to get into the BIOS to see what's there. According to websites I visited I should be able to just hold down F10, but that didn't work. Nor did esc or del or any of the other ones I thought would be worth a try.
So I decided the next best thing (and I got some advice from someone else, credit where credit's due and all that) would be to try and get a floppy installation. It's hooked upto the net so once that's working it shouldn't be a problem. It's just the first step that's keeping me back.
Hopefully that makes sense.
--Slosh
