\begin{Jason Rennie}
> I'm planning on installing debina on a box i have at home. However i have
> a few quick question as to how to go about it.
have a quick flick through:
http://www.au.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.html
particularly the chapter on install methods
> Firstly i was planning to do a netowrk install of all of the distro, so i
> don't need a set of disks. However the base install needs 11 floppy disks
> plus the boot disks (right?).
you only need two (or is it three now?) disks, for kernel, root
filesystem and kernel drivers (modules). assuming you have "normal"
hardware (no scsi), you should be able to get away with using the
*-compact kernel/drivers, which are significantly smaller.
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