Comments on: A close shave: Debian Etch floppy images

By: totalizator

totalizator — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:23:30 +0000

Thanks!

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

In praise of floppies « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:58:49 +0000

[...] forget, you can still install one of 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 [...]

By: A close shave: Debian Etch floppy images | Debian-News.net - Your one stop for news about Debian

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:59:31 +0000

[...] 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. More here [...]

By: johnraff

johnraff — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:14:50 +0000

There are still Debian repositories available at http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/
You have to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file that the installer puts in to point at them. See this page:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive
for a bit more info.

(I discovered this trying to install Woody.)

By: JP Senior

JP Senior — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:26:14 +0000

Pxe boot is always a handy ally in this situation but cannot be relied on without much preparation. My lab network has a few tftp server images and dhcpd network for just such an occasion.

I’ve been a fan of the debian netinstall image for my older, broken, proprietary-network-driver systems.

I have to admit though my old 486dx2 laptop hasn’t ever been upgraded… No cdrom and a barely functioning floppy drive. Woe was me!