On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:18:28AM +0000, Chris Lale wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:15:57AM +0000, Chris Lale wrote: > >>Michael Fothergill wrote: > >>>If I wanted to install etch as a net install, how do I do this? On > >>>the installation web page there is a choice of a weekly snapshot or a > >>>daily built image. The daily built image has a netinstall CD in it. > >>> > >>>Is there a netinstall CD for the weekly one? > >>> > >>>I have never tried to install Etch. > >>> > >>Did you download the Etch RC1 installer from > >>http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/? Choose "netinst CD image > >>(100-150 MB)". Burn the ISO image to a CD. Boot from the CD and press F3 > >>at the prompt. You can choose a curses-bases installer or a GUI > >>installer. The installer will install all the latest packages in Etch > >>directly from the repository. You will need a broadband connection. > If you haven't got broadband you will need to be patient! It takes me 2 > - 3 hours to install Etch over broadband. I installed Sarge once using a > 56k dialup and it took a whole day. >
Just to see (and to rearrange my raid/lvm setup), I installed Etch amd64 RC1 last night and chose a mirror and had it install the whole standard system from within the installer. It took 7 hrs. I imagine that if I had asked it to install Gnome it could have taken a week. To me, the goal of an install is to get the basic system installed so I can add stuff to it. It would be __very__ handy if there was a "standard" task in the task lists (or a metapackage) of aptitude that corresponded to the "standard system" task in tasksel during the install. If you forgo using a mirror during the netinst.iso install, you get a very basic system but one with enough to get more on it, with your drives and kernel setup. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
