I understand how painful it can be for some OS (no name mentioned, Win95 30+
floppies), but I can install the minimal Debian with nine floppies that
takes less than 30 Minutes and Slackware takes even fewer floppies and about
the same time. I know all of this, but Debian doesn't work with 2.2.+
kernels yet, and slackware is setup differently. You ought to be able to do
a Minimal install with floppies, say 10 or less, with no problem. It
shouldn't be 'too' hard for Mandrake to set this up with a seperate .img of
their distribution. Or include it in the current distribution. After the
minimal installation is finished, I should be able to add whatever packages
I want with RPM.
Now all of this debating over whether computers exist out there without
floppies or whether people without floppies should turn to a different less
effective distribution is counter productive. If there is a way to do a
floppy install of Mandrake I would love to hear it. If there isn't, I would
love to hear that also so that I can complain to Mandrake about another
group of computer users they are pushing away. If you all want a big
cumudgeon of an operating system that is pnp from the start only, then this
is counter the purpose of Linux and eveyone should go back to Windbloze. The
whole purpose of Linux was that it could be run on any computer with out
taking up a whole bunch of space, and now Mandrake requires a minimal
install of around 600Mb. Granted there is alot of free software included,
but even Windows doesn't take up this much hard drive space on it's initial
install. Well maybe W2K does.
Anyways I would appreciate any help on this floppy install idea.
Thanx,
>
>Yes, but without the external CD-ROM being available, either?
>
>I mean, I've *done* a Linux floppy install (5+ years ago), and that is
>*painful*. A great deal more painful than plugging in the external
>CD-ROM, and Linux has gotten a lot bigger since then.
>
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