[ILUG] Installing Debian using Floppies

[Chris Higgins]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:50:35 +0100
"Colin" <colinval at iol.ie> wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
>   I got an old toshiba laptop, cant think of the model off the top of
>   my
> head.
> Its old....running windows 3.1
> 
> I want to put a basic copy of debian on it, just for testing scripts.
> 
> Could someone guide me to information on installing debian using
> floppies.

I take it then, there is no cdrom - what about a network card ? 

The debian-installer project has a two floppy network install... 

the other option you'll be offered will be 
 - partition system, copy debian files onto local partition[0], then
install using local partition as the debian source

[0] how you do that if you don't have network or cdrom access is the
challenging bit

Take a look at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ for some
more suggestions.

> 
> 
> Cheers
> -Colin
> 
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