Chris Owen said:
> Oh dear this is not going very well.
>
> I now find that it's not possible to mount any floppy (as the
> installation program attempts to do when I run "Install the kernel and
> driver modules"). If I go "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy", it churns the disk
> for ages then comes back wi
oted from!
I have 16MB RAM plus an active 64MB swap space, which should be enough
to avoid memory problems I should have thought...
In any case the installation manual seems to imply that I shouldn't have
to go through this 20-floppy base install, it should be possible to do a
net install v
Chris Owen said:
> Hi, I am trying to do a Debian install on an old laptop. I bought a set
> of CDs, only to find they are CD-R's, not CD-ROMs, and my old CD drive
> doesn't read these...
try installing the base system with floppies I think that has all
the PCMCIA stuff:
http://archive.progeny.c
Hi, I am trying to do a Debian install on an old laptop. I bought a set
of CDs, only to find they are CD-R's, not CD-ROMs, and my old CD drive
doesn't read these...
So I want to try a network install (current stable version, over the
internet via my router) with my PCMCIA network card (an Ethe
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