Is it possible to get anywhere a single 3½floppy for installing Debian
from internet? (So that I can boot up installer and then just download
files from debian mirrors...) At least other distriputions can do this,
but however I haven't been able to find out where to get this floppy image.

-Antti-

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 18:12:46 +0200, Antti wrote:

> Is it possible to get anywhere a single 3½floppy for installing Debian
> from internet? (So that I can boot up installer and then just download
> files from debian mirrors...) At least other distriputions can do this,
> but however I haven't been able to find out where to get this floppy image.

<http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst>

gregor

gregor herrmann wrote:
>
> <http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst>
>
> gregor

Thank you.

"Antti" <antti.aspinen@phnet.fi> wrote in message
news:8TNid.1198$Wn7.143@reader1.news.jippii.net...
> gregor herrmann wrote:
> >
> > <http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst>
> >
> > gregor
>
> Thank you.

required more than a single floppie unless you have a 2.88Mb drive last time
I checked it

I have a BIG problem with those debian floppies...

I have:
Rescue (Boot), Root, Linux and driver 1-4 disks. And when I try to start
installation I insert Boot disk and then Linux disk and kaboom. It will
load sometime, but after that it will start doing weird thigs.

It shows a message style of:
0210
FF:4346
AX:4363
DD:4236

and it does it until hell freezes over. I have tried to write that
linux.bin to other disks, but since every floppy I have are new I don't
think that problem is in those floppies. So it must be in that linux.bin
floppy image. So what do I do now? I have tried to download that linux
floppy again and writed it but it didn't worked.

So what do I do now?


I am experienced Linux user with Gentoo, Redhat and other in famous
distros and I'd like to give a try for Debian since one of my friend
told me about it. But looks like this is it. I'll have to wait for my
computer components arrive from post before I can burn debian dvd...

-Antti-

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:33:46 +0200, Antti wrote:

> Rescue (Boot), Root, Linux and driver 1-4 disks. And when I try to start
> installation I insert Boot disk and then Linux disk and kaboom. It will
> load sometime, but after that it will start doing weird thigs.

quote from
<http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot#s-boot-from-floppies>:

| After booting from the rescue floppy, the root floppy is requested. Insert the root floppy
| and press Enter, and the contents are loaded into memory. The installer program
| dbootstrap is automatically launched.

note that it says: "Insert the _root_ floppy" and not (what you seem to
have tried the _linux_ floppy).
IIRC that's also what the install routine tells you ...

gregor

> note that it says: "Insert the _root_ floppy" and not (what you seem to
> have tried the _linux_ floppy).
> IIRC that's also what the install routine tells you ...
>
> gregor

I tried first that Root floppy, and it went stuck at immidietly. I am
not that stypid you know. I have read that manual.

And only disk that seems load something is that linux.bin, root.bin
doesn't even start loading anything. And installer asks me to "change
correct floppy". So what I am going to do with it?

-Antti-