OK I suggest you do all four floppies and try the following: after booting with the boot and root floppies, use the cd-driver floppy and if this produces a result I believe you can install from there.
If that doesn't work use the net floppy and install from the network. The first choice wold be to install from your desktop over the lan, ie use your desktop as a server to serve up the installation files. Do you have a debian cd set or dvd to use? On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:40:48 +1200 Joshua Collins wrote: > 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 and out of date, and mislabelled, and lost.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 -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
