[H-GEN] Debian floppies for Saturday

Sandra Milne silne at optusnet.com.au
Thu Jan 2 15:25:28 EST 2003


I'll probably be there. Buy a brand new box of floppies, and myself or 
somebody else can get the images and write them to disk for you. I find the 
problem with floppies (and their drives) is that they tend not to work 
after 18 months (at work it's after 5 months but that's another story). I 
always like to use brand new floppies in situations like this.

Sandra.

At 05:56 3/01/2003 +1000, you wrote:

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>Hi all,
>
>Has anyone got Debian on floppies that they can bring to the meeting
>this Saturday?
>
>I have an old Compac box that I want to set up with Debian but:
>- It has no CD-ROM and I can't find the key combination to get to bios
>tell it it has a CD anyway
>- I have been trying to get the 1,44 images from the Debian site, the
>rescue.bin worked fine but the root.bin can not be read once it is on
>the floppy.
>
>The box will be used as a file server that will mimic a NT box, so will
>have SAMBA installed, it will also have apache, php, and mysql.
>
>I have chosen Debian solely because that is what I have installed on the
>only other 2 Linux boxes I have built (read very green), but if I can't
>load debian I will have to look at other strains.
>
>Thanks
>
>Paul.
>
>Site Dynamics - Paul Clarke
>paul at qfm.org.au
>0414 367 747
>
>
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