On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > [note: I'm talking about a 'net install for the people who either > don't have a CD-ROM drive on the system in question, don't have a > burner, or don't feel like downloading the massive amount of CDs they > don't need] > > What do you think those 6(?) floppies are? Yes, I eventually used toms > root-boot to get the system up (1 floppy!) then wget'd the base tgz > from there, but it was a non-standard and non-supported method of > running the install. get the 'compact' disks.. install on just about any box, and only 4 floppies. :) or go download that cd boot method, which puts all the install floppies on 1 bootable cd (about a 30mb download).. i don't remember the url off hand, but freshmeat has it. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500