so i finally managed to boot off the floppy disks and am now in the debian installation menu, just short of installing the operating system. i have a local debian mirror, so i'd like to install via network (ftp) -- especially because i don't have the cds. i am using the "compact" kernel.
i am dealing with three machines, and they all have different network cards. one is a ne2000, one a 3c59x, the next a tulip chip. i would like to install the network drivers, but they aren't on any of the disks. my headaches are with the driver-1.bin disk, which resides in the compact directory -- how do i use it? it looks like a 512byte offset gzipped disk image, but the debian installation program can't load it - it waits for like 5 minutes before reporting that it "cannot mount the floppy. stop." what's the native method to configure the network cards during a floppy install? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 1-800-psych hello, welcome to the psychiatric hotline. if you are depressed, it doesn't matter which number you press. no one will answer.
