If you mean installing the base system, then I have done so from a hard disk. Note that it is recommended that you only install the basesystem from the harddisk and then install the other stuff from the net.
Robert J Cristel writes: > Hi Hendy, > > I enjoyed your informative post. I found it very interesting because I > am having exactly the same problem. To the gentlemen who tried to be > helpful: > > the menu at this point of the install procedure offers a choice of 1) > floppy 1 > 2) floppy 2 > 3) cdrom > 4) harddisk > 5) mounted > > > > * I selected the medium I will use to install the > > > system (that's my harddisk) > > > > As you can see our interest is with the '4) harddisk' choice. > > We would be interested in hearing from anybody who was able to proceed > beyond this point, starting with the slink downloaded files in an msdos > filesystem and going on to create a new Debian installation. > > Best Regards, > Robert Cristel > Montreal, Canada > > <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> > <html> > Hi Hendy, > <p>I enjoyed your informative post. I found it very interesting because > I am having exactly the same problem. To the gentlemen who tried > to be helpful: > <p>the menu at this point of the install procedure offers a choice of 1) > floppy 1 > <br>2) floppy 2 > <br>3) cdrom > <br>4) harddisk > <br>5) mounted > <blockquote TYPE=CITE> > <pre>> > * I selected the medium I will use to > install the > > system (that's my harddisk)</pre> > </blockquote> > > <p><br>As you can see our interest is with the '4) harddisk' choice. > <br> > <br>We would be interested in hearing from anybody who was able to proceed > beyond this point, starting with the slink downloaded files in an msdos > filesystem and going on to create a new Debian installation. > <p>Best Regards, > <br>Robert Cristel > <br>Montreal, Canada > <br> </html>
