[PLUG] Re: Debian Network install

Stafford A. Rau srau at rauhaus.org
Fri Jun 13 09:56:02 UTC 2003


* Jason Van Cleve <jason at vancleve.com> [030613 08:00]:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 06:32:55 -0700 (PDT)
> Gerardo Arnaez <garnaez at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 2. What problem are you having?
> 
> As I said, no 'Net connection.  dhclient fails to initialize eth0.  So
> does dhcpcd, evidently.
> 
> > 3. Why are you dong a net install?
> 
> The debian site recommended it.  And it didn't tell me which of the full
> ISO I would need, if not all eight.

As much as I hate floppies, you can download the rescue.bin, root.bin,
and driver-1.bin through driver-4.bin floppy and use rawrite (dos) or dd
(nix). You can then do a netinstall with for everything else.

That's probably the most common way to install Debian systems.

--Stafford




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