On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 06:09:31AM -0500, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > > <distrowar> > > This is simply not true. I've installed Debian at least a dozen > > times, and never had to install the base on floppies. Although > > I *did* download the images when I was thinking about trying to > > install Debian on an old 386 laptop with no CDROM. :-) > > > > [note: I'm talking about a 'net install for the people who either > don't have a CD-ROM drive on the system in question, don't have > a burner, or don't feel like downloading the massive amount of CDs > they don't need] > > What do you think those 6(?) floppies are? Yes, I eventually used > toms root-boot to get the system up (1 floppy!) then wget'd the > base tgz from there, but it was a non-standard and non-supported > method of running the install. Please do not persist in your mistake! You need maximum threee floppies (root/boot + network driver) to install debian over the network. While it is true that you need to download the big drivers.tar.gz file, you just need a network driver out of it. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020630/7ca7831c/attachment.pgp