On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Martin Svensson wrote:
> Hello, > > I work with special designed embedded computers that we have on forklifts > for warehouse management. The PC consists of one type II PCMCIA slot, where > we have the harddrive. Usually a SunDisk (flash), or a Calluna disk. And it > also got two type III PCMCIA for network/radio cards. > > Now I have a problem. I want to install debian on this computer. I have for > the moment a SunDisk with 175Mb capacity. I've made one 40Mb (MS-DOS) > partition on it, with the debian installation files. But this computer > doesn't have a floppy drive, and we cannot connect one either. There is no > CD-ROM either. I wonder if there is a debian "install package" that I can > run from ms-dos and just install everything without having to put in any > floppies. I only have Windows 9x and NT workstations with PCMCIA slots, no > linux machine. I can also boot from one of the type III PCMCIA slots and > install on the type II slot, and make the linux partitions there. All I need > to know if is there is or will be available a complete install package for > ms-dos. I can install the rest from a network, with a network card running > ne2000 compatible drivers from the type III slot. > > I hope you understand what my problems is. > > Thankyou in advance > Martin > > > > ================================ > Martin Svensson > MA-System Control AB > Teknik Avd. / Technical Department > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www: http://www.masystem.se > phone: +46-46-325258 > mobile: +46-709-895258 > ================================ > The answer: yes. In fact you would need to download the disks packages and the install utilities (found in install/ on the Debian CD). Those would be enough to start the installation. (I hope these are the "Debian installation files" you have on your MS-DOS parition). The Debian installation is capable of installing from HTTP, FTP, NFS, any mountable drive (disk partition,CD-ROM,etc.). You would need to use an address like 'http://www.xx.debian.org' where "xx" stands for the country identifier of the mirror site. (You may leave this blank, i. e. use 'http://www.debian.org'). If the site you want to use does not support HTTP (you can hardly find such, though) you may use "ftp://"; instead "http://";. Hope this is enough, Pavel M. Penev
