Alternatively, a PLIP (parallel port IP) link to another sytem might also work.
I'd probably vote for an HD swap myself. On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 05:14:53PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > You might try coping the files to floppies that have > been formated on the target machine's drive. Or > transfer the target machine's floppy drive to the > machine doing the copying and then move it back to the > tarket machine. Methinks floppy interchange may be a > problem. > > ---------------------------------------------------- > To all, > > I have tried to install Debian from floppy disks several times on an old > IBM 486 ps2 machine. The machine boots fine with the rescue disk fine. > The point at which the install fails is during the mounting of the > rescue disk to continue with the base install. I have made several > new rescue floppys thinking it may be the media. I have only chosen > to install from floppy because the machine has no cdrom and only one > isa slot for expansion. It does have a 300 mb hard and 8 mb of ram. > Thanks for any help in advance. > > > > ===== > Amateur Radio, when all else fails! > > http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze > > Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. > http://invites.yahoo.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http:/www.netcom.com/~kmself What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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