Steve Meyer grabbed a keyboard and typed... > I have an old 486 without a cdrom in it. If I pull the hard drive and > stick it in another machine to perform the install will this work? And if > it does work will it make the system any less secure?
Since it's Debian, you don't need to stick it in a separate machine.
Just get enough floppies and do the install over a network :)
The only way this would be insecure is if someone broke into the
machine you're installing from and you copied over bad files.
-Anne
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