floppy:

This is not a recommended installation method. Floppies are notorious for their failure rates. If there is a machine with an archive and Linux, and floppies are going to be made on that machine for one that only has floppy drives, it would be far more successful to bring the machines close enough together to install a null modem cable between them and establish a SLIP connection between the two machines and proceed with an FTP installation.

If this is impossible..., then the problem becomes one where you must have far too much idle time on your hands. CD-ROM drives are cheap. Buy one. If you wish to install the complete binary distribution, it rings in at just under 400 MB. Even on 1.44 MB floppies that's still around 280 floppies.

For a limited number of packages this method has a reasonable chance of success. The best approach for this is to place all of the .deb files for the packages to be installed into one directory and build a Packages file for them. See Building Packages Files on page  for details.