Thanks for what you gave me I made the disks on my desktop. But I haven't found a pcmcia Network Card thats in my price range yet, Is there a way I can do it without a network card.
Thanks Will Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Adam Shand wrote: > > > I'm new to the Linux World and have been trying to install linux on it > > for about a week now, I think that it is my cdrom drive, I have made > > discs for Debian but I was wondoring if there was a way I could install > > Debian via only floppys. I know it'll take five million floppys, but so > > does windows and I know Linux is better that Win95. > > yep it's not to hard to do, it takes just under ten disks. in fact i just > installed debian this way on my old thinkpad 755cx (no cdrom). > > go to: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ > > you need to make disks for all of these: > > base14-1.bin > base14-2.bin > base14-3.bin > base14-4.bin > base14-5.bin > base14-6.bin > base14-7.bin > drv1440.bin > resc1440.bin (depending on your laptop you might need resc1440-safe.bin > or resc1440tecra-safe.bin instead. i've never needed them > so i don't know much about them, but other have worse luck.) > root.bin > > if you already have a linux box somewhere you can make these by issuing the > command: > > # cp image.bin /dev/fd0 > > if you only have a dos/windows box you also need the utility rawrite.exe > which can be found at the same place. just run it and it will walk you > through making each disk. > > boot off of the rescue disk and you get walked through the install just like > a cdrom. once you finish you should be able to get support for networking > and do the rest with apt. > > if yourr laptop pcmcia stuff is cardbus then it's a little harder. you need > the pcmcia stuff from unstable which requires glibc2.1 which you'll have to > download and install by hand before you can upgrade, it's easy but a pain. > > hope this helps, > adam. >
