Re: potato boot floppies and FTP/HTTP install

2000-05-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On 19 May 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > There are several `flavors' of i386 boot floppy sets. You might want > to try the `compact' or `idepci' version (see the README in the ftp > archive). With `compact', often the NIC driver for your card will be > built into the kernel, and you'll be ab

Re: potato boot floppies and FTP/HTTP install

2000-05-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "S" == S Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: S> I recently tried using Corel Linux and Caldera on this one spare S> system I have at work just because I had received free copies of those S> CDs. After trying to get used to these "other" distributions I decided S> enough

Re: potato boot floppies and FTP/HTTP install

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
5, 1 rescue disk, 1 root partitin disk, 3 driver disks (you could do this with the good ols slink disk but you'll have to upgrade something that might give some problems regarding libc6 and perl. Ron Rademaker On Fri, 19 May 2000, S. Salman Ahmed wrote: > > I recently tried using Corel Linux a

Re: potato boot floppies and FTP/HTTP install

2000-05-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I'd like to do a ftp/http install of potato on this system since we have > a fast connection at work. How many boot floppies are required to do > this kind of ftp/http install ? > basically two floppies: a rescue (boot) disk and a root disk. possibly you need the disk with additional driver modu