>On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com>wrote: >Mark put forth on 12/30/2009 3:12 PM: > On 2009-12-30 at 12:25:05 -0500, soft...@catholic.org > <mailto:soft...@catholic.org> wrote: >> I am on the Debian site. >> It is not really clear which file is to be used >> to boot from a 3.5 floppy. > Would hard drive booting work in this case? I've looked at the Debian > Installation Manual section before as this interests me but couldn't > quite make sense of it with the information provided > (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en). Seems > like booting to a Live CD (even Ubuntu would work here), downloading the > boot files and installation .iso to a separate partition on the hdd and > booting from that might work, does that make sense to anyone else? > >The OP asked for floppy boot install, the simplest method ever, and now you >recommend this as an option? I'm guessing the OP wanted "simple".
Sometimes this email list is quite entertaining :) Mark
