john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've put together another box with items left over from upgrades plus > a new 10.2G IDE hard drive. So far I've only installed Debian on > boxes already having a running system (originally W95 and later just > DOS 6.22 which I find easy to start with). This time I thought I would > try installing Debian from scratch. > > I assumed that after the BIOS setup, I would have a functioning > floppy drive and could use one of the floppy images to give me basic > files and then install from my Potato CD's. Unfortunately, the only > one on the CD's is a 2.8Mb 'rescue.bin' (? combined rescue and root). > > Can I use the 'split' command to make two floppies - I would have > thought it too chancy for something so critical? Alternatively, am I > going about things completely wrong? > > Grateful for any help. John.
Let's see, my current machine arrived completely naked, I think the way I dealt with it was by downloading a bunch of 1.44MB floppy images from www.debian.org. Once I had a basic system, I used my backups (on Iomega ZIP100 disks) to restore my original setup. I can't wholeheartedly recommend this last step, however, because it was a pain. Alternatively, maybe you can install directly from the CD's? -chris
