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