Hi Robert
I tried a boot floppy from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/
I used rawwritewin.exe (details...13/10/01 01:40 AM 530,944 rawwritewin.exe)
from an old redhat8 CD to image to a floppy.
& all was well. the listed files are:
09/12/04 06:19 PM 764,114 linux 09/12/04 06:19 PM 658,439 initrd.gz 09/12/04 06:19 PM 426 initrd.list 09/12/04 06:19 PM 59 disk.lbl 09/12/04 06:19 PM 443 syslinux.cfg 09/12/04 06:20 PM 842 f1.txt 09/12/04 06:20 PM 568 f10.txt 09/12/04 06:20 PM 636 f2.txt 09/12/04 06:20 PM 612 f3.txt 09/12/04 06:20 PM 896 f4.txt 09/12/04 06:20 PM 1,120 f5.txt 09/12/04 06:20 PM 1,147 f6.txt 09/12/04 06:20 PM 943 f7.txt 09/12/04 06:20 PM 766 f8.txt 09/12/04 06:20 PM 342 f9.txt 09/12/04 06:20 PM 67 syslinux.txt 09/12/04 06:20 PM 9,519 splash.rle 09/12/04 06:20 PM 8,236 ldlinux.sys
also put the (root.img) on floppy.
After you get the base system up All the rest can be done online.
Simple & no CD needed.
Don't make the mistake I made ............
when it came to adding users I didn't add root.
I have never added root before because the every distro does it as a default.
NOT Ubuntu it seems.
And from the floppies I can NOT fix it.
The redhat CD came to the rescue again.
The Ubuntu CD wouldn't allow me to add a passwd to root!
The redhat CD came to the rescue again );
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Tillsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 3:12 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Sarge install floppies
Hi guys
I'm trying to install ubuntu (or generic debian) onto a laptop without a cdrom drive. I've been able to download the root and boot images and am using winimage to put them to a floppy. When I download the cd-drivers.img and the net-drivers.img and open them in winimage they don't have any files. I've tried dowloading from planet mirror, ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linux/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/ rc2/images/floppy/ and http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/
Can anyone suggest why they are blank?
Cheers
Robert Tillsley
Network Administrator St Vincent's College www.stvincents.nsw.edu.au
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