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Booting from Floppy with USB

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Booting from Floppy with USB

First, download (or otherwise obtain) the floppy disk boot image and write it to a floppy disk:
\begin{smallexample} > wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main... ...ot.img > dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync \end{smallexample}
Place the Floppy into the Floppy drive and turn the computer on. Ensure your computer has booting from Floppy enabled (this is a function of the BIOS so you made need to go into the BIOS setup program at boot time). You will be asked to press Enter to boot Debian-do so. This will stop with a request for a root floppy or a USB stick.

Now obtain the USB image and the CD ISO image to be placed on the USB stick (see http://d-i.pascal.at/ for further information):
\begin{smallexample} > wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main... ...1 /flash > cp sarge-i386-netinst.iso /flash > umount /flash \end{smallexample}
Then plug the USB stick into the new machine and press Enter to continue.


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