On 8 Dec 1998, Paul Crowley wrote: > "Scott K. Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Just to touch on this, but Debian installed off an ATAPI CD drive with a > > BIOS that supports boot-from-CD (all Pentium class machines basically) is a > > ZERO floppy install. You can get away with 2 if you load the base system > > from NFS on another machine (you can also get away with 0 if you have a > > DOS/Windows partition to leave the base files on). > > The documentation explaining how to install Debian seems to encourage > the many-floppies route, rather than treating it as a last resort. > Perhaps this is why Debian is generally perceived as needing a lot of > floppies. > > Do you need more than 2 to boot from a non-booting ATAPI CDROM drive? > What are the plausible situations where a lot of floppies are needed?
The primary use for the 8 floppy install is a single, non-lan-connected machine without a CD drive. If you have an ATAPI CD, or an DOS parition you're going to save, you can get by with 0-1 disks, 2 if you have a propriatary CD (like an old soundblaster one). You can also use 2 disks if you have a supported ethernet card and a local NFS server. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
