It says that these files should be written to a floppy: Studenten Net Twente - Index of /debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/floppy/
How would all of those fit onto a floppy? Could I write a CD instead?
Ikon
August 11, 2008, 5:10pm
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That would be 5 floppies. If im reading correctly. I use CentOS not debian. And who uses floppies anymore.
Exactly. So could I write a CD instead or would it not work if I did that?
Ikon
August 11, 2008, 5:17pm
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What are you trying to do?
Here are the cd isos.
Debian -- Getting Debian
The download times out after a while for the CD isos so I can't use them.
Ikon
August 11, 2008, 5:27pm
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On all of them?? Sounds like you have an internet problem.
This one is only 32megs.
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r4a/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r4a-i386-businesscard.iso
Even if you get it working from the cd image or from the floppy you will then be installing packages from the internet, so you will likely have the same downloading problem.
That won't fit on a floppy. Could I write that to CD?
Ikon
August 11, 2008, 6:10pm
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Its not gonna do you any good if you cant download from the internet.
The floppies are for those people that cant boot from a cd and will install via the network or internet. If its not letting you download the cd images its probabally not going to allow you to download the packages.
If you can't boot from CD, you can download floppy images to install Debian. You need the floppy/boot.img, the floppy/root.img and one or more of the driver disks.
The boot floppy is the one with boot.img on it. This floppy, when booted, will prompt you to insert a second floppy � use the one with root.img on it.
If you're planning to install over the network, you will usually need the floppy/net-drivers-1.img. For PCMCIA or USB networking, and some less common network cards, you will also need a second driver floppy, floppy/net-drivers-2.img.
If you have a CD, but cannot boot from it, then boot from floppies and use floppy/cd-drivers.img on a driver disk to complete the install using the CD.
Floppy disks are one of the least reliable media around, so be prepared for lots of bad disks (see Section 5.3.2, �Floppy Disk Reliability�). Each .img file you downloaded goes on a single floppy; you can use the dd command to write it to /dev/fd0 or some other means (see Section 4.3, �Creating Floppies from Disk Images� for details). Since you'll have more than one floppy, it's a good idea to label them.
