From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:23:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:23:23 -0400 Received: from ool-18b899e0.dyn.optonline.net ([24.184.153.224]:31224 "EHLO bouncybouncy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:23:08 -0400 Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:23:20 -0400 From: Justin A To: tristan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: installing Linux over a network Message-ID: <20010819222320.A9409@bouncybouncy.net> In-Reply-To: <20010820012137.8E169501DB@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010820012137.8E169501DB@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/