On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Chuma Agbodike wrote:
Actually, Debian requires zero disks for installation. It can be
installed directly from a bootable cd-rom (if you have a machine
capable of booting from CD).
What makes a machine bootable from CD-ROM drive ? Or is there
something I can do to
CS == Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CS if your motherboard's bios supports booting from CD then you can
CS boot from a cd drive. if not, then you can't.
And, AFAIK, the CDROM has to be on the primary IDE controller.
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RE: your web page at http://mkracht.aye.net/~matt/linuxdist/
Debian
Web: http://www.debian.org/
FTP: ftp://ftp.debian.org/
You've got this part correct, at least.
Installation
For some reason, Debian requires six disks for their installation
program. I knew this was a
Matt,
I apologize if you seem to have been hit recently by the Debian
Advocacy Brigade, but I -do- want to add one thing myself.
Craig Sanders said:
RE: your web page at http://mkracht.aye.net/~matt/linuxdist/
Debian
Web: http://www.debian.org/
FTP:
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
[snip]
Actually, Debian requires zero disks for installation. It can be installed
directly from a bootable cd-rom (if you have a machine capable of booting
from CD).
If not, then you can install using two floppies - the boot disk and the
drivers
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
[snip]
Actually, Debian requires zero disks for installation. It can be installed
directly from a bootable cd-rom (if you have a machine capable of booting
from CD).
If not, then you can install
Actually, Debian requires zero disks for installation. It can be installed
directly from a bootable cd-rom (if you have a machine capable of booting
from CD).
If not, then you can install using two floppies - the boot disk and the
drivers (kernel modules) disk. The rest of the base system
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