Re: [Question] Debian 1.1 Installation
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Vaibhav Goel wrote:
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>
> Hello;
>
> I am interested in installing Debian on a 486 machine. This machine does
> not have a CDROM drive so I will have to download the whole package and
> install it from floppies/ftp. Here is my situation; I will be connecting
> the 486 on Ethernet to an NT box. I would like download all the packages
> that I need on to that NT box and ftp those packages to the Linux Debian
> machine. Basically, I would like to install the Debian base installation
> using a minimum floppies. So my question is; What exactly do I need
> besdies the 3 base disks, 1 boot disk and 1 root disk to get the Debian
> machine talking to the NT machine using FTP.
All you need to access the NT machine is the base diskettes.
I normally do NFS, but I'm 99% sure that FTP will work too.
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