Re: Debian on Thinkpad 755C with NO cd-rom drive

2005-01-17 Thread Ioana Glitia
I've started installing Debian (the latest stable) and i've put all the 20 base floppies in. Where could I get the X window packages for debian from, to put them on the hadrive (with the floppies- I don't have the cables for a ftp connection) and then use apt-get to install them? Ioana [EMAIL

Re: Debian on Thinkpad 755C with NO cd-rom drive

2005-01-17 Thread Daniel Schmidt
Ioana Glitia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Has anyone installed Debian or any kind of Linux on an IBM Thinkpad 755C > (or anything similar) that only has a floppy drive, no cd-rom drive and > no network connection? I've got a pc with network connection of course > so I could get whatever I need

Re: Debian on Thinkpad 755C with NO cd-rom drive

2005-01-17 Thread seth . edwards
I used to run Debian on a 755C for several years (it was my first laptop). I installed via floppy and eventually hooked up to a PLIP connection. In fact I used it until just before I moved about 18 months ago. I had X and fvwm95 running on it. It does run much better though if you have 36MB. If