On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Jay Kline wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:04:43PM -0500, Perry Hoekstra (dutchman_mn at charter.net) wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:14:50 -0600 > > Quick question for the Debianers out there. To do a net > > install of a minimum Debian system, do I need all the > > floppies listed (I think there is 20)? I know when I did > > a net install of RH 6.2 way back when, it was like a three > > floppy set. > > All you really need is the "rescue" image, and the "root" image. The rescue > image boots, the root image is your root filesystem for install. If you have > a network card not apart of the install kernel, you may need some drivers, but > I never ran into that (mostly common hardware). Then just select your source > from the net somewhere. I have found its easier to just use a minimal CD, but > it does about the same. > My preferred method of late is the XFS boot iso (which also supports reiserfs): http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list