I don't wanna start a flame war, but it is reeelly all that difficult to use 7(or is it 9? -I forget) installation disks instead of two?. I had a truly great experience installing Debian "by the book" using floppies and apt. BTW: How many disks would you need to install Windoze -about 50-60?! (If it was possible, that is...) Debian Rocks!! :-) Vitux
Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 2. september 1999 13:59 > Til: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: recipient list not shown > Emne: Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat? > > On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 11:21:36AM +0100, Patrick Kirk was heard to state: > > I also graduated from Red Hat. Debian installation is a beast but it > leaves > > you with a working system that is idiot proof. Red Hat is an easier > > installation but things fail and you're left trawling the net resolving > > dependencies. > > I attempted an installation of Slink today, and it's been quite a while > since I have done a fresh install, but I've been using Debian for quite > a while now (since Bo, at least). I too, graduated from RedHat. > > One thing that got me though. I didn't have a CD handy, but I have a > good net link at work, which regularly get's over 200k/s from > Australia's best mirror. I figured, I don't need the CD, just the > install disk. > > Now before anyone tells me to RTFM, I had a feeling it wasn't going to > work, but I had a bit of time to kill... :) > > Anyway, I couldn't be bothered doing all the disk images, so I just got > the rescue and drivers disks, booted up, repartitioned (the whole, and > only HD). I was hoping it might let me FTP the base... > > Nope, no chance! > > Then I remembered that some of the mirrors let you NFS mount them, but I > couldn't find anywhere a list of those that would, and their NFS-shared > paths. I searched the web, the debain site, and the mailing list arcive, > but couldn't even find any hints... Is this information available > anywhere? > > Seeing Debian is such an internet-centric (ie., apt) distribution, it > would be nice if you could install the whole thing with one the one or > two boot disks (I'm sure you can with redhat). Even if the boot disk had > a little FTP client (like wget or curl), so you could switch to a VT and > put them on that newly made EXT2 partition. > > Maybe there is a way to do that, but I certainly couldn't work it out. > You have an extremely minimal, but network connected, installation, but > no way to use that network. Now maybe the boot disks are already too > full, but I'm sure *something* could be queezed on. I think it would be > a very useful feature. > > Now I haven't seen the Potato (are we out of Toy Story names yet!?) boot > disks, so I have no idea what is on them. It's just a little suggestion, > I guess. > > Cheers, > > damon > > -- > Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. > * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony > * Webmeister / disguised as one. > * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling$ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
