moving from amd to p3?

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I can deal with it.
How hard are these floppies to get for deb?
Thanks,
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: moving from amd to p3?


> If you can wait for the network download, sure you can do a 
> net install. There is a way to do this on most distros these days.
> I have done it on debian, redhat, and slackware for sure. Get 
> the network install boot image and let it go, it will take a long
> time though.
> 
>  Tyler said.
> Is there any way I can just install like debian with a really old kernel,
>  like off flyppy, then use apt to upgrade?
> 
> It's not that you'd need an old kernel, just a generic one, 
> basically the same bare ones that are used when doing the
> initial install. But as I said in other message, if you are 
> getting disk boot failure, then something else is wrong. 
> A different kernel will not fix that. Check the connections
> and if you can, check the BIOS drive settings. If there is
> another drive in there, take it out for now and boot with 
> just the new drive.
> 
>   -- Doug
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