On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:45:41PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
> Only way I could see to do this with any degree of ease would be to use
> toms or something similar to make a PPP connection over a null modem cable
> to another Linux boxen with a CD drive, then copy the relavent packages to
> the hard disk, then run your boot floppy and tell it you're installing
> locally.
This is pretty much how I was going to do it. Even the base packages are in
the order of 10 floppies. I'm too lazy to shuffle that many disks, and I
have all the cables I need. But I couldn't see any ppp capability in toms
disks. Which is why I started tinkering with the deb boot disks, with the
goal of maybe installing via nfs (could we get any more evil?).
> You'd need two partitions, though - one to put the packages on {maybe you
> could reuse it later for swap, if you're doing a minimal enough
> installation and can keep the size down}, and one to do the install on.
Also considered using the swap partition. But it would be possible, and
fairly simple, to just ext2 format the root partition, and dump all the base
packages into /base, or somesuch. Then I get to actually use the swap,
which will be handy.
Peter
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