I'm not sure about that.
How would you boot without a floppy or a bootable CD? You might be able to
get away with partitioning the HD such that you have a partition which holds
the driver-1-3.bin files, but I'm pretty sure for a Debian install you need
at least a rescue.bin and root.bin diskette.
How I was able to do my one diskette Debian install was by having two
computers, one the box I was installing Debian on and the other one writing
to the same diskette over and over (So I would insert a diskette, let Debian
do its thing, take the diskette out, put it in my other machine, rawrite
whatever was needed next to the diskette and put it back in the debian
machine).
- Kathleen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Magni Onsoien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Kath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 3:18 AM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Distribution problems
> Kath:
> > BTW, I've done Debian net installs with one floppy diskette before, it
was
> > quite interesting :)
>
> But is it possible to do a Debian net install _without_ any floppies
> (and without CD etc) to a i386 box? I tend to never have any useable
> floppies at home, but I have a 10Mbps connection to sunsite.uio.no and I
> have bunches of boxes which can run tftpd or ftpd or whatever is needed.
> I assume floppy-less install is possible with sparc, but what about plain
> i386-hardware?
>
> (I know I can install from an available partition on my box, but as I
> want to use all the disk (2GB) for /, /usr and swap that's not a real
> option either.)
>
>
> Magni :)
> --
> sash is very good for you.
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