Re: floppy or hard-disk installation

[Benjamin F. Zhou]

you have more than enough space to install debian and a X. download the seven base14*.tgz file, together with resc1440.tgz and drvs1440.tgz, and rawrite.exe . to your windows PC.  with rawrite.exe you write those 9 diskettes in native linux format. only 7 disks, not to many right? much less than windows. after the base has been installed, configure your ppp., with pon your_ISP, will connect to the internet. goto select and select standard package , not X. you will start downloading all the necessary standard packegs. it may take 10 hours or so, so do it at night and faster. start with X only when standard packge has been installed. You may also goto XFree86.org to get the 4.0 release. I am still trying it. not sure if it works. it takes up 50 MB I think. good luck, Ben Bionanou wrote:  Hello I have a acernote light 350PCX I don't have any network card on it This laptop doesn't have a cdrom player and it has only 775 meg of harddisk space I want to install one of the Debian distribution on it.  I can install it from the hard disk or from floppy.  The thing is that I went to the download site an I have absolutely no idea of what distribution I should download with my desktop computer.  I don't know how to put debian on floppy for a future install on my laptop. I want to put it on floppy because I don't think I will have enough place on the laptop for an hard-disk install with 2 partition.  If there is an older distribution small enough to do this with 775 meg, tell me wich one and where I can find it please.  This way, I will transfer it from my desktop computer with the parallel port and I will install it after from the hard disk. I also would like to know how to do it with floppy and again, where I can download what I need. Help me please!!!!!! bionanou