Re: Grateful for the floppy install!

2007-06-13 Thread Raquel
bian can also be installed via usb stick, if the bios > > supports booting from it. > > Well, I am grateful for the floppy install because I was recently > bequeathed with a 10-year-old Thinkpad 755X which has no USB and > no Ethernet. Floppy or PCMCIA/CF card are the only boot op

Re: Grateful for the floppy install!

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
soft.com or www.goodbye-windows.com . > > Well, this applies only, if you have that other OS preinstalled. > > However, debian can also be installed via usb stick, if the bios > supports booting from it. Well, I am grateful for the floppy install because I was recently bequeathed with a

Re: Grateful for the floppy install!

2007-06-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > And in case you don't have any floppy handy, you can use > www.goodbye-microsoft.com or www.goodbye-windows.com . Well, this applies only, if you have that other OS preinstalled. However, debian can also be installed via usb

Re: Grateful for the floppy install!

2007-06-12 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mar, 12-06-2007 a las 17:49 -0500, Lance Simmons escribió: > I was trying to do a fresh install of etch using the net-install > cdrom, but my cdrom drive kept flaking out. I figured that I'd have > to install a new drive, but then I remembered that Debian can be > installed from floppies -- or

Grateful for the floppy install!

2007-06-12 Thread Lance Simmons
I was trying to do a fresh install of etch using the net-install cdrom, but my cdrom drive kept flaking out. I figured that I'd have to install a new drive, but then I remembered that Debian can be installed from floppies -- or at least it could in the past. But was the new version of Debian too