Judith Bush wrote: > > My experience yesterday helps me sympathize with the original > poster. My personal installation last year went beautifully as i ran > from a bootable cd. On the other hand, I run debian at work, where i'm > developing a kiosk system. I've a handful of thin clients -- NONE WITH > CD ROM DRIVES -- set up by a vendor. I'd forgotten their password. The > boot/rescue disks that they included didn't work. I decided i wanted > to make rescue disks (one one of the systems I've had going for a > while). I can remember with slackware system had the boot/root disks > quite findable with clear instructions on how to build them from both > the DOS & linux OS. I could not find anything like that for Debian, > although i did find the DOS tools directory. > > So, maybe where the initial boot up stuff is could be pulled out, or > at least a top level symbolic link so that one doesn't have to dig... > > Or maybe *i* missed something, too.....
The "Installation Manual for Intel x86" has the listing of the base floppy images, as well as links to them. Alternatively, they're under "dists/[un]stable/main/disks-i386/current".
