Floppies

[Jongilanga Guma]

Any one living in cape town who has ubuntu-ppc?
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 16:28 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 03:59:45PM +0000, Richard Brown wrote:
> > Just signed up and all set to download and run Ubuntu. But (there is 
> > always a but), slight problem. I own a G4 Powerbook with no floppy 
> > drive and the PC box I've just been given has no operating system on 
> > and only boots to HD or Floppy. So does anybody own a floppy boot disk 
> > that will enable Ubuntu to install? I am happy to pay postage, cost of 
> > disk etc... I live in Cornwall, England.
> 
> (This is better on our ubuntu-users@ list, so moving it there.)
> 
> Unfortunately we don't support floppy installs at the moment. It's a
> goal for Hoary, but I've been having trouble fitting the necessary bits
> onto floppies, so I have nothing to offer you just yet.
> 
> Is it possible to take the PC's hard disk out, put it temporarily into
> another computer, and install it there?
> 
> Otherwise, I'd suggest installing Debian 3.0 (booting from floppies and
> getting the base system from the network, if you can) and upgrading from
> there.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]
>