Re: chicken and egg problem with installation on a floppyless system

1997-05-06 Thread Steve Dunham
"K. Desai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bg > Now for the problem: > a few months ago, i installed debian using the 2.0.6 kernal. > i made a set of boot/root/base/modules disks and successfully installed > everything i wanted [or could fit onto my 170 MB drive]. > now, i bought a new 1.3GB drive

chicken and egg problem with installation on a floppyless system

1997-05-06 Thread K. Desai
Hi there, Ive been trying to install DEBIAN onto my laptop for quite a while now. at one point i did succeed but now im screwed and have run out of ideas. in a nutshell: i have a compaq contura aero 4/25 this machine has an external pcmcia floppy drive i also have a pcmcia ethernet card for it.