On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 21:07:43 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote:
> Hi g4sra, > > g4sra via Dng writes: > > > <--snip--> > > This is why Devuan's installer will ask\prompt you to insert > > additional installation media such as a USB stick. There are just > > too many Gigabytes of Drivers required to satisfy every corner > > case, put the drivers your quirky hardware requires on a USB stick > > and use it when prompted! I do not ever want to have to install an > > OS from 31 removable media's ever again! (Windows NT > > anybody?)._______________________________________________ I've done that once, but mostly it has been various versions of Novell which thankfully are not that many as NT was. > > Me waxes nostalgic and remembers installing Debian from 12 > floppies ;-) -- Did it work? My installation didn't, so I then tried the Slackware floppies which also didn't work. Then the Redhat floppies, which did work, which is why my first working distro was Redhat for a few versions. Weirdly I actually has a Suse CD beforehand*, but it was in German and my German language knowledge was effectively nil. *It was sent to the LUG, but no one else wanted it. Aaah, those were the days. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
