Comments on: Still very cool: Debian floppy install

By: In praise of floppies « Motho ke motho ka botho

In praise of floppies « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:58:51 +0000

[...] the greatest operating systems in the world … with only floppies! That’s right, you can get your system online and surfing the Web with only a few floppies and an hour or two of time. It’s [...]

By: A close shave: Debian Etch floppy images « Motho ke motho ka botho

A close shave: Debian Etch floppy images « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:42:27 +0000

[...] A close shave: Debian Etch floppy images Published 2010/07/22 Linux Leave a Comment That was close. I didn’t realize that Debian’s latest release would eclipse Etch, and remove most every reference to the old installer structure from the main servers and mirrors. It’s only really important to weird people like me, who consider the floppy installers to be an excellent tool. [...]

By: More successful networking purchases « Motho ke motho ka botho

More successful networking purchases « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:28:20 +0000

[...] be told, its success rate was under 50 percent, but I always assumed it was an issue of configuration, that I could probably rely on it in a [...]

By: Mike Harden

Mike Harden — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:14:12 +0000

The reason for the lack of floppy media is that the current linux kernel doesn’t fit on a floppy disk anymore. So unless someone created a paired down kernel just for floppy install, then it won’t work. Debian doesn’t do that because they don’t want to limit hardware detection.

If the machine has a CD drive but just can’t boot from CD, you can try using PLoP or Smart Boot Manager on a floppy to boot from a CD.

By: Lightning strikes twice « Motho ke motho ka botho

Lightning strikes twice « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:32:38 +0000

[...] and even more surprising, they both lose network connections when traffic spikes. What I took for a hardware problem with the Corega card shows up in the Buffalo card too, which means the problem lies elsewhere. In [...]

By: EreccionMatutina

EreccionMatutina — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:15:36 +0000

Floppy install was also lost in some past version of Slackware.

By: Still very cool: Debian floppy install | Debian-News.net - Your one stop for news about Debian

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:38:44 +0000

[...] about Debian or Ubuntu, but I think the floppy installation option was the coolest thing ever More here I might be alone in that assessment, but I’m a bit sad that it doesn’t seem to be around for [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:43:32 +0000

Wow, a 20-second boost is really dramatic. Are you sure there’s nothing else going on there? Seems like a 20-second delay would indicate something odd is going on. …

By: charleshbaker

charleshbaker — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:38:29 +0000

The floppy install is what made me switch from Red Hat, or Red Hat derived distros way back at Red Hat 5 or 6. I bought a used Dell XPi laptop (133 MHz) and it had no CD. I tried Red Hat, SuSe and Mandrake none of which identified or used the network card. Finally tried Debian which I had zero experience w/ and it worked like a charm. Used minimal floppies, identified pcmcia network card and installed majority of distro via ftp over the Internet. I was sold!

I do have to use RHEL at work, but on my personal machines it has long been either Debian or a Debian derived distro like Ubuntu, CrunchBang or Mint.

By: Links 21/1/2010: GNU/Linux at NZ Government, Haiku+KDE, Firefox 3.6 Out | Boycott Novell

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:17:05 +0000

[...] Still very cool: Debian floppy install I like Debian for being somewhere in between a beginner’s distro and an advanced distro. Many of the high-end, menial chores required by Crux et al. simply evaporate in Debian, and at the same time Debian doesn’t seem to “push your face in the plate” like Ubuntu sometimes can. You’re still responsible for managing a lot of what happens with your system … kind of like Arch. [...]