Re: installing slink onto laptop

2000-03-28 Thread Matthew Dalton
Yeah, you can install the base system using floppies, which is enough to get your network up. Check out: http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html especially "5.7.1 Installing Base from Floppies" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hiya > > How can I install slink onto my l

Re: installing slink onto laptop

2000-03-28 Thread Peter Ross
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 01:32:23PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hiya > > How can I install slink onto my laptop given that the laptop only has a > floppy and no cdrom? > Goto http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install and read section 5.6 installing from floppies. Part of the base

Re: Installing slink with a 2.3 kernel

1999-08-28 Thread Gerald . Preissler
With kernel-package you can create a *.deb from your compiled kernel. Can you install this? bye Jerry -- Just being paranoid does not mean they´re *not* out to get you...

Re: Installing Slink via NFS

1999-04-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote: : On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Larry de Graaf wrote: : : > By the way, are there any known good nfs servers for Slink ? : > : > I would appreciate any help. : > Thanks! : : Why would you want NFS rather than FTP? The only benefit is for systems : that

Re: Re: Installing slink from a Zip drive

1999-04-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Santiago Vila Doncel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, David Wright wrote: > > The problem is that the ppa driver required to make the ZIP drive to work > is now out of the kernel (i.e. as a module). > > [ This is a difference between Debian 2.0 and Debian 2.1 that I discovered

Re: Installing slink from a Zip drive

1999-04-21 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, David Wright wrote: > One of the nice things about installing hamm was that I could do it with > one floppy and a zip drive. So I was really looking forward to putting > slink on a couple of new boxes which are, as far as possible, MS-free. > > So I partitioned a disk, got to

Re: Installing Slink

1999-03-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:28:51 -, you wrote: >On the other hand if you put the 2nd CD in >first then use "Install" in dselect it will tell you to put in whatever CD >is needed when it does the installation of the packages. Does apt-get do the same thing? How do I include a "home-made", non-sta