On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
> I meant I don't have a LINUX box. Just %$%! windows. When I did use
> linux,
> I tend to tar the whole HD to a zip disk. This way if I needed to change
> HD's
> it was easy. But alas Linux (debian) does not boot from floppies any
> more, thus rendering it almost as useless as M$.
Huh!?!?
I beg to disagree, sir. It boots off a LOT of floppies. Six, on x86.
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current
although I prefer woody myself:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current
Plus, AFAIK, Deb is the only one left that allows install and upgrade
by modem.
Doc
Received on Fri Apr 05 2002 - 13:31:06 BST