soft...@catholic.org put forth on 12/30/2009 11:25 AM: > Hi Debian: > > I am on the Debian site. > It is not really clear which file is to be used > to boot from a 3.5 floppy.
I assume you're wanting to boot from a 3.5" floppy to do a network installation. It would appear that a floppy boot install is now (unofficially?) deprecated. I cannot find an image file or installation instructions for writing the boot image to a floppy disk, and floppy booting is not mentioned at all in the installation notes for Lenny. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.html.en In the olden days, one would merely download the floppy disk images and then execute the following commands to write the files to the disks :/$ dd if=deb.netinst.1 of=/dev/fd0 :/$ dd if=deb.netinst.2 of=/dev/fd0 and then boot from the first disk and pop the second one in when prompted. Sry I couldn't be more help. I've used this install method for years. Apparently I'll have to switch to the minimal CD net boot install for new installations I do in the future. :( -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
