On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:40:53PM +0000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Koyote wrote: > > Ah, but any more than one is a problem for a machine with a USB floppy drive! > Since most USB machines will have a bootable cdrom drive they dont have to use a single floppy. > I think you're missing my point. RedHat has a floppy+CD system, with an extra floppy for PCMCIA Debian has a zero-floppy system, if you have the cd. > [snip...] > > Debian install complete, never used Windows! But had to detour to RedHat to make it work. Hence > the suggestion: a single floppy net install for Debian would be real nice. But might be not worth > the effort, especially with USB support coming in soon- though that would have to be compiled in > to the rescue floppy's kernel (not as a module), which would bloat it somewhat. :-( > I didnt use windows to install debian either (a good thing since the last installations i made were on linux-only machines). I used the bootable cd on the pcs with a cd drive, and nfs+ftp on the other ones. Of course, had I not had a single cdrom drive I would have had to resort to other means... Installing via nfs does require several floppies, I think 2 or 3 (including the initial boot floppy). -Lex
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