Rob, I have a laptop with no hard drive that boots from the floppy and automatically nfs mounts its filesystems from a Sun Solaris machine using "yard". Yard is not yet a debian package but is available from the usual places.
--Bob Rob wrote: > > I have a spare 486 that I would like to utilise in some form for debian. > Unfortunatly, it has no hard disc, although it does have a network card. > The rest of the network consists of an NT4 server, two W95 workstations, > and another debain (hamm) box, which currently talks to the others via > basic TCP/IP services (ftp etc), and samba. > > Is there a simple way of creating a boot floppy that will get enough off > the ground to load the rest of linux off one or other of the other systems > (presumably the other debian box!) or do I have to scrounge another hard > disc.. > > Thanks in advance, > > Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .