> | > | > to begin this project, but little to my knowledge, I have spent the > | > last three days reading though your FAQ's, readme files, etc trying to > | > figure out how to get the image which should be a simple afair, yet > | > failing miserabbaly and I have the following comments/complaints I > | > hope you will at least consider about your system. > | > | The docs could be better organized. However, this list is populated > | with folks who've been through most of the pains themselves, strongly > | recommended you ask first. We're usually pretty helpful, or so I hear. > > Yeah, just look at all the responses you've gotten already (and no > flames :-)).
and another big pro for debian "I have a problem with my RH 7.1 bal bla" postet to this list will increase the risk of getting flamed ;-) > > | > First I will like to say that your meathod is intivative and I > | > understand your issues of wanting to save banwith, also after thinking what kind of bandwidth do I save with the pseudo-image-kit ? Just download the iso with a ftp client witch can resume and your done. Do I miss something ? Anyway A nice way IMO ist the following: Download the right 2.88 mb boot-floppy image and base2_2.tgz (~50mb) from somemirror.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current Burn a CD with the floppy-image as boot-image and the base2_2.tgz as a regular file on the CD. Boot from the CD install the basesystem from the CD. This gives you a running linuxsystem where you can mess around with the usual tools to make your modem/lan working if they don't do already. by 'installer-magic' . Configure apt to use your pref. mirror and anything additional to this starter-kit-linux is now just apt-get install <package> away. (If you don't intend to keep it slim use dselect ;) I'd say *this* saves bandwidth just to give some ideas pascal Ps: perfekt way to jump right to testing as well
