On Sat, 17 May 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> What did you install so far and how did you install it? To do a complete > new install by ftp, you probably need to have an ethernet connection to > the internet. If you have one, great, but if not, cd-rom installation is > probably the best bet. Or, if you have some other way to ftp the files to > your hard drive, you can install from there. A cd-rom is the quickest, but certainly not needed. I've installed debian without a cd-rom and its pretty simple, since I had the scripts I needed to get ppp going. The bad part is it is rather time consuming. The full set of files would take several days to download over a modem. However, I didn't want to install every package. My aproach was to select the standard stuff that I wanted - required, gcc, kernel source, pine, fetchmail, network tools and such. I would run deselect before I went to bed. The next morning it would still be downloading, but by the time I got home from work I was able to install the packages. The next session would be to download X. Then after that I would install the stuff like tetex, games, ghostscript, etc. > > Once you get things installed, and have ppp or whatever working, the ftp > installation method can be used to install additional packages or > upgrades. Dselect has enough of the ftp tools included to do this, but > does not have any modem dialup capability built-in. Modem dialup is included. Just be sure that the serial modules are installed. Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
