Re: Installing on old computers (WAS: Re: Time to rewrite dpkg)

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Please -- all replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Eduardo" == E O Fredrik Liljegren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eduardo> On a computer without CD-ROM one has to start by Eduardo> disk, but that's ok. Do you mean floppy, or the hard-disk option? Eduardo> Then you get the option of NFS, but not

Installing on old computers (WAS: Re: Time to rewrite dpkg)

1999-05-21 Thread E O Fredrik Liljegren
> methods are phasing out is just plainly wrong. Currently we have three > ways of booting the installation system: bootable CDs (requires a modern > BIOS), floppy disk and bootp (requires a netword card with the proper > ROM, and a bootp+tftp server on the same network). Our bootable CDs use a >