On 23 Jun 1997, Sven Rudolph wrote: > (Nowadays many people won't install base from floppy, so I'd even risk > more base floppies, but currently this is plain speculation, because > there is enough free space (more than 800kBK for 1.44MB floppies).)
Ehhh! Ix nay! Hold on! No way man. I dont know any other way than to install from floppy. I have a single user machine, the only networking is ppp. Now, until someone whips up and installer like the one that comes with redhat, and installs it off the cdrom directly (w/o *any* floppy), then Ill be up a creek w/o the floppy intallation. Also, I generally only reinstall from scratch when my harddrive crashes. And I usually install Linux first, so I dont even have the comfortable base of dos to pull stuff off the cdrom and stuff. Even in dos, its a major pain to get the cdrom working. Show me a computer that can boot off a cdrom... and gimme a cdrom that will boot up debian... And Ill buy it like a shot. Or if anyone interested, make up a special ROM with kernel etc in it, so the machine will boot from ROM... Has anyone done this? Don Dibos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .