On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 03:09:05AM +0200, Christoph Plattner wrote: > Hello Debian Hackers, > > here is a further dependent question: > > Although I am not new in Linux-stuff, and although > a participate some GNU projects or even HP and VAX Linux > projects (device driver development), I am not able > to fully understand the debian installation (sorry). > > To get a fully naked installation (empty machine), > I need the current rescue floppy, containing SILO > and kernel. This floppy isinstrumented to ask for > a root floppy. > > The root floppy download from the web is one, which > is only possible to use for locally installation, > for example for CD ROM. But which floppy or image > I have to use for the "standard" network installation > via ftp ? I cannot find it ! > > The drivers are only drivers (I think), the base system > is the tar ball for a root file system (debootstrap > cannot unpack it on a i386 system, as I want to install > a SPARC machine). > > Which root floppy I have to use ???
It sounds like maybe you are thinking that basedebs.tar is what the rescue floppy is asking for. Instead, it is asking for a floppy made from the image file named root.bin. That floppy image contains instructions and a ramdisk filesystem which will handle any kind of install (CD, hard disk, network, NFS). You will find the root.bin image in the images-1.44 folder for the target architecture, next to the rescue.bin image. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
