4. What do you need ?

• A Personal Computer, laptop or desktop, called the target computer or simply target.

• A 3"1/4 inch floppy drive on the target.

• Two or three fresh floppies. They don't need to be formatted. You also need one more DOS formated floppy if you have to play with FIPS.

• A other Computer with a cdrom drive and nfs services, called source computer or simply source. It doesn't have to be a Linux system but just a system which can export a cdrom drive via nfs. In this HOWTO, I assume it is a Linux system.

• A cdrom distribution. I took a Debian Hamm (2.0r3) from an old Infomagic compilation. I think every distribution can be installed this way, but I'm not sure. I've read a french document, written by Chmouel Boudjnah, saying the RedHat distribution has a easy installation process. The Chmouel's document also deals with the Debian distribution, so if you read French, you can use the Chmouel's document instead of this one.

• A Null-Modem DB 25 cable.

• Some time: 3 hours.

• Coffee.