Debian install

[bobtcowboy]

Hey all!

I've been thinking a lot about doing a Debian install lately... specifically I wanted to try the floppy install... Does anyone have any experience in this? :confused: I read some NHFs but didn't see anything about this in particular... I have a good net connection, but its through my university (Go SDSU! :D ) and they'll kick me off if I download anything too large so I wanted to try it this way

So where do I get these files for the disks? am I just plain nuts in trying this as a relative newbie?

Also: I would ideally like to dual boot with windows and I've heard that Debian will hose a windows partition and/or the MBR, whats the reality behind this?

Thanks all,
Bill

[reeze]

yes I've done a few debian disk installs, and its not that hard, as long as you know how to rawrite disks, but it soes take longer then a CD install. Dont forget that you can still get debian iso images.

http://linuxiso.org

As for the location of the disk images:

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/

Thats for 1.44M floppies on x86,

--reeze.

[manux]

floppy install is not hard or won't take long if you have 11 floppies for the bases files + 2 floppies for root and rescue disk image.

that's all you need.
or you could go with with 2 floppies to create the root and rescue disk and then do network install to download the base file.

[Aikidoka]

Any linux distro will hose a windows partition if not done properly. LILO will mess up your MBR if not setup right. Make sure you read some documentation from debian.org. (They have a nice installation guide in pdf format) before you do it. It's simple otherwise.

[bobtcowboy]

hey, thanks for the great responses...

only 11 (plus 2) floppies?

*buzzzz* (quick math) *wurrrrrrrr*

thats like damn near 14 meg.... what the heck do I end up with after only 14 meg? hmm.... does that include apt?

*goes to Debian.org to look into this a little more*

Thanks again :)
Bill