Debian network install

Andrew Hammond ahammond-swQf4SbcV9C7WVzo/KQ3Mw at public.gmane.org
Tue Feb 15 15:21:50 UTC 2005


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You may as well just buy a burner and some blanks. Floppies suck.

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Elliott Chapin wrote:
| Thanks very much. Having used some poor diskettes for woody I tried
| setting up sarge w. some of what was left. Fdimage appeared to work, but
| boot stalled when the kernel was supposed to be loading. So I'm going to
| get a box of higher grade floppies and try again in a couple of days
| when I'm not too busy.
|
| At 10:02 AM 2/15/05, you wrote:
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|> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:33:04PM -0500, Elliott Chapin wrote:
|> > Your Sarge suggestion could be going worse, but there appears to be
|> > something wrong with net-drivers.img. (?)
|>
|> I just downloaded the root, boot and net-drivers floppy images from
|> www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer (cliking on others for i386 then
|> floppy), and tried them in vmware, and so far they worked perfectly.
|>
|> Remember to write each one to a floppy with rawrite, or dd or the like,
|> and preferably test it as well (dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null bs=18k) to
|> make sure it has no read errors.  Floppies are amazingly unreliable
|> after all.
|>
|> Lennart Sorensen
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