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both my cd-drives are pretty much dead, so was wondering if any of you fine folks could give me a recomendation on a distro to install via floppy. I have ...
  1. 07-17-2006 #1
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    Good Linux to install but no cd drives

    both my cd-drives are pretty much dead, so was wondering if any of you fine folks could give me a recomendation on a distro to install via floppy. I have a usb hardrive which i can put files on if that helps, and an ethernet connection. remember that I have NO CD drives (the boot floppies with cd drivers worked for a bit but no longer work)
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    so was wondering if any of you fine folks could give me a recomendation on a distro to install via floppy. I have a usb hardrive which i can put files on if that helps, and an ethernet connection.

    you could try 'network installation'.many distros have this facility.

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    http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst
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    Another would be Arch Linux: http://archlinux.org/
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  5. 07-17-2006 #5
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    I tried debians floppy install but it could only install sarge which is too outdated. everytime i tried to upgrade to etch, it wouldn't get the 2.6 kernel and X was configured to get the 2.6 but debian wouldnt let me get 2.6 so i just started to get slackware running with the cd, but my drives quit in the middle of the install.

    I might just try and install arch linux. but exactly what .img files do i need from its FTP: site? just root&boot, or are there others?

    ok i booted it up, but have had no luck loading the eth-addon modules from my floppy... what is the command?
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  6. 07-17-2006 #6
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    ok installed the base AOK. but am having problems getting gnome & gdm loaded.
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