Yes, you did miss step, I think. I hope you have LAN connection since you have NIC on system. If your NIC is not connected to Internet, you need to run ftp or http mirror of debian archive on some host of LAN since you have no CDROM on your system which yoiu are installing debian.
There should have been step where you can configure your system. First DHCP or not, then if fixed, proceed with installation. This may be after reboot. Since you are doing 11 floppy deal. Did you rebooted system after base system install? (I forgot details of install.) If you use ide boot floppy they have network card compiled in. You only need 2 FD to do install and rest can be from network. After everything, you need to edit module to get system working with standard kernel. I attach my recent woody install memo in which I used only potato boot disks. Osamu PS: Theoretically you can dpkg -i package by carring everything by floppy. But will you??? O Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:04:15PM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I was forced to install Debian from floppy images (base 1 - 11). > > I went through the steps and I did not have a chance to > configure a network. > > Did I miss a step? > > If I have only a floppy drive to get in new code, what are my > options? > > Thanks -- Randy > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + Fingerprint: 814E BD64 3288 40E7 E88E 3D92 C3F8 EA94 D5DE 453D + + http://www.aokiconsulting.com/pc/ Cupertino, CA USA +
Install woody using potato boot disks ide-pci kernel on ide boot disk enables pci network cards. 1. Get 3 potato disk set of IDE boot/root(/driver) disks 2. Boot with FD 3. Fdisk/fsck/mount swap, root, tmp, var, home, usr (no 2.0 support) 4. Install OS from network. No need for driver disk(s) 5. Configure driver (No action option) 6. Install base system from network (base2_2.tgz) 7. Configure base system 8. Install lilo to /target and keep current multiboot mbr 9. Reboot system (Lazy not to create FD) 10. MD5 yes, shadow yes, setup also user account 11. Edit source by hand (setup 2 entries, change "stable" to "testing") 12. Install advanced (dselect) 13. Select minimum set (exclude emacs, nvi, tex, telnet, talk(d),...) 14. Include mc, vim, ... (for convienience) 15. Install (download all...) 16. All configuration questions = y (replace current) 17. exim: select 2 for machine behind FW, 1 for internet machine. (XXX) 18. Never erase downloaded file, end smoothly. Wow! 19. Check by "Select" console-* and lilo are from potato. Heck, it works. 20. I see complain about "DESTROY" method. Annoying but testing. 21. Login to root, run dselect --expert, good 22. Reboot. missing char-major-10-135 ? (rtc) but fine 23. Compiled newer kernel with SMP. No more rtc issue.
