Nick Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Aside: were it not for the flexibility of the Debian installtion process, > I'd probably still be using slackware right now. I had previously been put > off by the fact that stable appeared to be rather out-of-date, and the err, > cough, interface to ds... cough... was a little unf... cough. I was able to > install onto a 486-50 laptop with 4MB RAM using 7 floppies (created on a > slackware box) followed by nfs over PLIP (no Adam, no network either). None > of the other major distributions would install on that box *at all*. Having > installed the system, and been forced to learn a little bit about dselect, > I was converted.
I'm curious. Does PLIP work in the woody boot-floppies? Are there things we could do to make installation via PLIP network easier? -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
