In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you write: >> and start installing? > >I am working on this for Debian 1.2 . Currently, you have to go through >the 5-floppy thing as detailed in my installation document on our WWW >site and also via FTP as >ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html . > >I am planning to make 3 initrd files. Which one you use depends on how >much RAM you have. The smallest one boots to a miniroot, and you have >to feed in a floppy to get the device driver modules. This is >suitable for 4MB systems. The next larger one contains the miniroot >and all of the modules, and you have to feed in floppies for the base >system. This is suitable for 8MB system. The largest contains the entire >base system, and is suitable for 16MB systems. These should run directly >off of a CD or DOS partition, and will make floppy-less install possible >for most people. >
What I thought...I frown on making floppies anymore (I'd much rather transfer images through ethernet... Right...I'm looking at machines with >= 16 mbytes RAM...I've used yard to make ram boot disks of 4 megabytes...(with bash and nvi on there). I then mount the slackware (I've used slackware) install disk (as another ram image somewhere) and get it to work.. through brute force!! Maybe I'm looking for instructions of what programs I have to have installed in what places...I'm perfectly comfortable building them myself... You want to some help? I'm going to install a system this weekend, so I might give debian a while (I've been using ELF for a year, and the only ELF system I knew of last year was slackware). I floppyless install off CDROM is the way to go... Are all the floppies independent file systems? Can I mount them as loopback file systems? marty
