Re: [9fans] floppy install?

["John Osborne" <osborne6@gmail.com>]

That would be nice, and I would have tried that first, but as I
mentioned below, the machine in question doesn't have a CD drive, and
to make matters worse, when I've tried to connect a CD drive to it in
the past, the CD drive doesn't seem to work with this machine.

Now, in the installation document on the wiki, it says the archive can
be pulled from a bzip-ed cd image or uncompressed cd image.  I'm
assuming that I could pull the disk (or somehow copy the image over)
onto the fat partition and install that way -- anyone else try that
recently?

On 1/29/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> i suppose you could avoid this step by mounting the distribution from cd.
>
> - erik
>
> On Mon Jan 29 09:48:29 EST 2007, osborne6@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi -
> > I have a oldish, small form factor workstation (a Toshiba Equium 7100
> > to be exact, 4GB hard drive, 64MB ram, network card recognized) with
> > no CD drive, and I've attempted to install via floppy and I get as far
> > as the download portion of the install, and then the download craps
> > out with
> >
> > (download): null list in concatenation
> >
> > And then thinks it's ready for mounting the dist.
> >
> > Any suggestions, ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>


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