On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Mike Miller wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Chris Schumann wrote: >> I plan to make such a set of floppies for Ubuntu using the Mini ISO, >> which is only 9.1MB, so it should fit on 7 floppies, or 6 if I make >> 1.7MB floppies, plus one for the boot diskette. It should allow a direct >> network install without requiring any OS to be installed. > > Does "network install" imply that no hard drive is needed on the local > machine? No, the term generally means that the source of the install is network-based. The destination is typically a local hard drive. (Although you can do fun stuff with ATA over Ethernet...I haven't tried a non-Xen install, though.) Jima