Hi, terryc writes:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 21:07:43 +0900 > Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > >> Hi g4sra, >> >> g4sra via Dng writes: >> >> > <--snip--> >> > This is why Devuan's installer will ask\prompt you to insert >> > additional installation media such as a USB stick. There are just >> > too many Gigabytes of Drivers required to satisfy every corner >> > case, put the drivers your quirky hardware requires on a USB stick >> > and use it when prompted! I do not ever want to have to install an >> > OS from 31 removable media's ever again! (Windows NT >> > anybody?)._______________________________________________ > > I've done that once, but mostly it has been various versions of Novell > which thankfully are not that many as NT was. > >> >> Me waxes nostalgic and remembers installing Debian from 12 >> floppies ;-) -- > > Did it work? Yes, although I may have had to rewrite a bad floppy, or two. And it worked not just on i386, but on m68k as well, IIRC. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
