Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-07-03 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> "CS" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CS> if your motherboard's bios supports booting from CD then you can CS> boot from a cd drive. if not, then you can't. And, AFAIK, the CDROM has to be on the primary IDE controller. -- SSM - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen Trust the Computer, t

Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-07-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Chuma Agbodike wrote: > > Actually, Debian requires zero disks for installation. It can be > > installed directly from a bootable cd-rom (if you have a machine > > capable of booting from CD). > > What makes a machine bootable from CD-ROM drive ? Or is there > something I can

Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Rick Hawkins
> Actually, Debian requires zero disks for installation. It can be installed > directly from a bootable cd-rom (if you have a machine capable of booting > from CD). > If not, then you can install using two floppies - the boot disk and the > drivers (kernel modules) disk. The rest of the base sys

Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > [snip] > > Actually, Debian requires zero disks for installation. It can be installed > > directly from a bootable cd-rom (if you have a machine capable of booting > > from CD). > > > > If not, then you can i

Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: [snip] > Actually, Debian requires zero disks for installation. It can be installed > directly from a bootable cd-rom (if you have a machine capable of booting > from CD). > > If not, then you can install using two floppies - the boot disk and the > drive

Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Buddha Buck
Matt, I apologize if you seem to have been hit recently by the Debian Advocacy Brigade, but I -do- want to add one thing myself. Craig Sanders said: > > RE: your web page at http://mkracht.aye.net/~matt/linuxdist/ > > > Debian > > > >Web: http://www.debian.org/ > >FTP: ftp:/

choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Craig Sanders
RE: your web page at http://mkracht.aye.net/~matt/linuxdist/ > Debian > >Web: http://www.debian.org/ >FTP: ftp://ftp.debian.org/ You've got this part correct, at least. > Installation > > For some reason, Debian requires six disks for their installation > program. I knew thi