[PLUG] Woody install question

[Dave]

Quoting Richard F Seymour <rseymour at spamcop.net>:

> I just went through a 27 disk floppy based install of woody on a laptop. 
> Aside from "bad floppy" issues, all went pretty well.
> 
> I did this twice actually. (I made a mistake on the partitioning scheme 
> first time through).

27?  Harsh.

Assuming you have a broadband connection, woody (and most other debian 
installs) has a netinst floppy set, some five or six disks, which installs 
cardmgr and such and then apt-get's the rest of the distro from some Remote 
Source.  Maybe not as fast as floppies(?) but far easier.  And upgradable! 

Check around the images/ directory for netinst, or similarly named.  I got, 
long, ago, a potatoe install working this way on a 3com pcmcia card.  


-Dave