[ILUG] Installing Debian using Floppies

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Colin (colinval at iol.ie):

> Could someone guide me to information on installing debian using floppies.

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-downloading-files

Be prepared for a certain number of read failures on floppies.  (You may
find yourself writing new disks from some of the floppy-image files a
few times in a row.  The reject rate has been really bad, in recent
years.)

If you are installing Debian 3.0 "woody" from 1.44 MB floppies alone,
that's 

1 rescue (boot) image
1 root-filesystem image
up to 5 driver images (depending on the set you pick)
20 base-system images

Bring a novel and boundless patience.  (If the laptop has a PCMCIA port,
you can save yourself those latter 20 floppies, by pulling down the
Debian Base System over the network, instead.)