Hi I am sorry that I am not responding, the correct way but I read tour mail in a beta-Linux where the mail is flaky. So here is my way:
On a partition called /dev/hdb6, named /mnt/bettan/, I have a root directory called debian. From http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/ I download three files. These files match my computer set up, check the alternative compact. driver-1.bin rescue.bin root.bin In the same directory I copy the file base2_2.tgz, to be found two steps up in current. I make three floppies through. dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0, where you change the input file name. Then I restart the computer with rescue.bin in the floppy drive and when asked I put in the root.bin disk. The dialogs are pretty obvious if you understand that initiate means format. You have to mount the partition /dev/hdb6 as bettan. When later asked where the base is, the debian mounting rule is: /target/bettan/debian, this you may find if you read the fstab which is one option. I recommend that you fill in as many sources as possible, when you are asked to set up apt. One night when the traffic was very heavy on ftp.sunet, getting 3kB/s, I restated the installation and put http first and got 156kB/s as an average. regards guran
