On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Ken Caldwell wrote: > > > Reading the Debian installation how to I did not see how many floppy disks I > > > need to do a network install? > > > > 6 IIRC. > > > I did one her yesterday with just two floppys. One was the bf24.bin > boot floppy and the other was the root.bin root floppy. This will only > work if the network card is already compiled into the kernel. Otherwise > you may need four more floppys containing drivers.
Aah, that's right. We have the most common NICs in-kernel, now, for (I think) just that very reason. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
