The idepci flavor contains a kernel with only IDE and PCI support. It is geared towards modern PCs without SCSI controllers. If you have SCSI, you should be using the 'compact' flavor rather than this one. It includes support for IDE floppies (ATAPI ZIP, LS-120). It does not include support for math emulation, sound, joysticks, video4linux, and other drivers not essential for installation. People with Promise Ultra66 IDE controllers should be using the especially patched 'udma66' flavor. In terms of installation, this set of floppies should work just as well as the regular ones. However, once your system is installed, you may wish to install the full kernel image package to get access to other available kernel modules. See the file 'kernel-config' for the complete list of devices included in this flavor. See the top-level README.txt file for a description of what the files in this directory are for. To get a complete description of what files are required for various installation methods, see the Installation Manual.