Hi all, Just my US$0.02 worth, but installing Debian-390 on hercules without enough disk space to load the 6 CD's worth of files is an excercise in frustration.
Things are probably all right for the folk with real iron (and real CD drives that the installer can use), but those of us without suffer. The main problem being, of course, that hercules doesn't have a CD device emulation available that Debian-390 could use. I *can* however, mount a DVD with all 6 CD's worth of files on my DVD-ROM drive and export that via NFS to the Debian-390 installer (once I figure out how to get NFS working on the base RH7.3 system, of course, but that's for a different list). I've read the stuff on jigdo, sounds pretty cool, but lacking a DVD burner I can't exactly take advantage of it. For that matter, even with a DVD burner, I've got to have the 4.7Gb (times 2?) to first load the files and then make the image. So, how about it folk? Any chance a stable release for Debian-390 can be made avalable to the vendors out there so I can pay them for their hard work in making a DVD for me to install on hercules? If so, any time Real Soon? Regards, Peter J. Farley III __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
