Quoting Colin (colinval at iol.ie):
> Could someone guide me to information on installing debian using floppies.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-downloading-files
Be prepared for a certain number of read failures on floppies. (You may
find yourself writing new disks from some of the floppy-image files a
few times in a row. The reject rate has been really bad, in recent
years.)
If you are installing Debian 3.0 "woody" from 1.44 MB floppies alone,
that's
1 rescue (boot) image
1 root-filesystem image
up to 5 driver images (depending on the set you pick)
20 base-system images
Bring a novel and boundless patience. (If the laptop has a PCMCIA port,
you can save yourself those latter 20 floppies, by pulling down the
Debian Base System over the network, instead.)
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