Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian Potato on a second machine. This machine > has internet connection so I thought I'd install from the net. I found > out that I have to put the content of: > ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/ > on a CD and make that CD bootable.
If you wish to install over the net, then all you really need would be a couple of boot floppies. If you want to use CD as boot media and intends to build your own CD image (and that you have a local mirror of Debian package directories), you may check out the debian-cd package, which are also used to generate the official Debian CD sets. There is still another good way to get things organized: if you happen to have slink bootable CDs handly, install the base system with that, set up apt sources, perform a dist-upgrade immediately (before you have any other packages installed to minimize the hazzle), and continue with intalling other packages over the net. This also works very well. -- Chuan-kai Lin
