[Gllug] debian install

[Kim Hawtin]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:29:17AM +0100, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> A short time ago people were talking about installing debian with a small
> number of floppies.  So I decided to go and try it.  I built my 6 floppies
> of woody (rescue, root, drivers1-4) and worked my way through until it came
> to installing the base system.  The media options were, floppy, cdrom,
> partition oor network so I choose network hoping that I could set up a ppp
> link over my modem to do this (I know it'll take ages but I can wait!) like
> I saw it do after the reboot when I tried the potato CD.  Unfortunatly I
> guess you can't install the base system over ppp/modem only the later
> stage.  I couldn't work out if this was the case from the debian site so do
> any of you know anymore or should I just download a snapshot CD of woody?

IIRC, you need to install the base also to do the following install
via PPP...

yours,

kim
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