On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:20:46AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > 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.
broadband or dial-up? my last install took me about 2 hours (I think, I was doing other stuff) on broadband rated at 6Mbps download (comcast cable internet). > > 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. why not just unselect everything but "manual package installation" in tasksel. that's what i do. A
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