On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:52:01AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | dman wrote: | > On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 04:06:21PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: | > | Osamu Aoki wrote: [...] | > | > If so network install is alternative. Just 2 floppies | > | > is all you need. | > | | > | What's the best reference you know for that? | > | > Get the rescue and root disks (I use idepci for net installs). Boot | > it. Specify network config (dhcp, static, whatever). Point to | > debian.org for downloads. | | Actually I still haven't been able to connect to my ISP from Linux.
What ISP? What sort of connection - dial-up, dsl cable? | > It is really quite simple. Simpler, even, than getting an old | > CDROM to boot. | > | > The other easy alternative is to pull the harddrive, put it in a | > new machine, install, put it back. I did this on the 486 I | > installed on (didn't have fast network for that one either). | | | That's probably the easiest for now. I still will have to deal with | that CDROM after the install. Dealing with odd hardware is easier after a complete system is installed. The installer portion is quite a bare-minimum (sometimes less) system so that it actually fits on the floppy. | Actually the Caldera diskettes turn out to have a whole bunch of CDROM | drivers. I haven't found one that works yet. But we'll see. Is caldera debian-based? If so it might not be so bad to start with their installer but redirect it to a plain debian system. -D
