[Gllug] debian install

Ian Northeast ian at house-from-hell.demon.co.uk
Mon Feb 4 20:49:40 UTC 2002


Kim Hawtin wrote:
> 
> 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...

The 30Mb netinst CD as recommended by SteveC here recently certainly
offers a PPP option. I didn't use it, so I can't say for certain that it
works, but I would expect it to. Things usually do in Debian.

Potato:

http://markybobdeb.sourceforge.net/elf/

or woody:

http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/

Regards, Ian

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