On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 06:17:39PM -0600, Timothy Wilson wrote: > I think that I can get Debian installed on my new Compaq DL 380 server by > creating a custom set of install floppies with a kernel that supports the > NIC, SCSI controller, and RAID controller on the server. It appears that > Potato has a package called 'boot-floppies' with a set of scripts designed > for building a custom install. > > Not having a Potato system handy (mine are running Woody), I'm wondering if > it's possible to build a set of boot floppies for Potato on a Woody system > (my instinct is no). The solution presumably, then, would be to find an old > computer lying around, put potato on it, and build the custom floppies from > there. I think that you should be able to use the potato version of boot-floppies on a woody box. Newer versions of libraries and tools shouldn't hurt anything, though to be safe I'd install the boot-floppies package on a system that wasn't usually used for development. That way when you pull the potato version of boot-floppies with apt-get you will also end up pulling potato versions of most of boot-floppies dependencies. > Before I do any of this, however, I'd like someone to confirm for me that it > is indeed possible to put a custom kernel (perhaps even a 2.4.x kernel) on > these custom floppies. I haven't switched kernels, myself though I have built boot-floppies.