Hi, I am having great trouble booting Debian on my laptop for various reasons and basically have one option left that I can see: build a basedebs.tgz file for Debian Testing and put in on the Windows partition, and then tell a woody boot floppy to install the base system from that tarball.
However, I've asked in #debian, #debian-boot and debian-user and nobody knows how I can create this file. The machines around the laptop have a fairly fast net connection (~35 KB/s, nothing special but better than a modem!) so I can download large-ish files like the base of Woody. Its downloading entire CD images which are not a good idea (shared net connection) which is why I haven't just downloaded an entire image of Woody. So, if anyone here can tell me how to generate the basedebs.tgz file (it will have to be done RedHat, btw) so that I can get debian onto my new laptop, I can then dist-upgrade using my Sid CDs and finally have a system to read my email with over Christmas... :) Many thanks for any help, Ross Burton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]