From: Justin A <justin@bouncybouncy.net>
To: tristan <fattymikefx@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: installing Linux over a network
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:23:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010819222320.A9409@bouncybouncy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010820012137.8E169501DB@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20010820012137.8E169501DB@localhost.localdomain>
The base debian install takes only 12 floppies or so.
If you have a network card that works in linux you can install the base system
over the network, then you only need 4 floppies or so.
http://www.debian.org
-Justin
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:21:37PM -0400, tristan wrote:
> I havent been able to find a way of installing
> Linux slackware or red hat with out using 90 or more
> floppies, and i have no cd rom on my 386. Is there
> a way to install Linux over a network on such an old machine.
> It currently has windows 3.1 and DOS running. And
> has one 60 mb hard drive and one 120 mb hard drive.
> I have found a small easy to install minix 386 that goes over
> DOS so I may just use that to start off, in order to install
> a very old linux kernel .01 or .02
>
> Tristan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-20 2:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-20 1:21 tristan
2001-08-20 0:18 ` David Lang
2001-08-20 2:23 ` Justin A [this message]
2001-08-20 3:24 ` Fred Jackson
2001-08-20 6:16 ` lk
2001-08-20 9:24 ` Luigi Genoni
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