[Techtalk] Installing linux without an ISO

[James]

I used to do it in 5 floppies...

Rescue, root, and drivers1,2,3.

Boot rescue, then go to root, then go through the installer, install
your drivers for your NIC then let debian get the base targz via
http://.  

Nowadays I just burned an ISO, because I got so tired of defective
floppies (I also bought a CD burner, which aided the whole ISO
thing...).  I remember one time using 1 floppy to do a Debian install...
By swapping it and putting a new image on it with rawrite2 every time it
needed a new diskette.

- James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org 
> [mailto:techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org] On Behalf Of Kai MacTane
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 9:38 PM
> To: 'techtalk at linuxchix.org'
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Installing linux without an ISO
> 
> 
> At 5/28/02 05:53 PM , Dave North wrote:
> 
> >I'm pretty sure Mandrake has one. Dunno on RedHat. But a floppy/net 
> >install for Debian is almost (but not quite) its natural state.
> 
> Really? The last time I tried to do a network install of 
> Debian, the best 
> instructions I could find on their Web site involved having 
> to build at 
> least seven floppies.
> 
> By contrast, Red Hat's net install involves just one floppy 
> (with an image 
> available at 
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/os/i386/images/bo
otnet.img ), 
and knowledge of a site and path to download the rest of the media from.

Since I could only find about two floppies in the house that I trusted,
I 
went with Red Hat. (This was a couple of years ago, and I no longer like

Red Hat. Now my first preference is Slackware, and then Debian. But
that's 
assuming I have CDs to install from.)

You've got me curious -- how do you do a Debian net install?

                                                 --Kai MacTane
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  Two worlds and in between;
  Hot metal and methedrine.
  I hear your empire down."
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