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every app on the system, even if you weren't going to use it.
Jason
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From: curious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:19:55 -0700 (PDT)
To: Anthony Russello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Distribution problems
> If your looking for debian with easy install.. go with storm2000
> (NOTE: make sure the versi
Actualy at an install fest a couple of years ago.. there was someone with
SunIPX that we managed to install over the network without a floppy or
cdrom.. I think it was somthing like using bootp and nfs.. all I remeber
it there were these two guys.. that just somehow already knew how to do
this.. :
Kath:
> How would you boot without a floppy or a bootable CD? You might be able to
Uhm, actually I didn't think about that, so I guess I'd get some
trouble, then :)
But I am about to get a new network card at work, with a nifty
bootprom-thingie on it, and it's capable of booting via tftpd. (Sor
e, rawrite
whatever was needed next to the diskette and put it back in the debian
machine).
- Kathleen
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From: "Magni Onsoien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Kath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2
> FreeBSD
> > Can anyone here recommend a good distribution which will allow me to get a
agreed. i'm using freebsd at the moment as a mailserver and yeah, it
was pretty simple and absolutely totally functional. no recompiling
either os or kernel.
sara
Kath:
> BTW, I've done Debian net installs with one floppy diskette before, it was
> quite interesting :)
But is it possible to do a Debian net install _without_ any floppies
(and without CD etc) to a i386 box? I tend to never have any useable
floppies at home, but I have a 10Mbps connection to
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Anthony Russello wrote:
> Basically, I need a server based distribution, with all the built in
> features of Mandrake, but all the flexibility and control of Debian. I
> just started trying out Caldera, but their partitioning program during the
> graphical install left much
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> Anthony Russello wrote:
>
> > I've tried out debian, but due to the 3 day long install process just
> > to get a properly working box, I'm not too big a fan. If it's the
If your looking for debian with easy install.. go with storm2000
(NOTE: make sure the version you get comes with 2.2.16 kernel.. storm has
a version based on slink (old debain) and potato (current version) under
the same name.. my system didn't support storm's graphical install.. but
the textinsta
Anthony Russello wrote:
> I've tried out debian, but due to the 3 day long install process just
> to get a properly working box, I'm not too big a fan. If it's the best
> one for the job, I guess I'll just have to suck it up and deal with it.
With the CDs available, I found it much closer to a
FreeBSD
Anthony Russello wrote:
>
> Hey all.
>
> Currently I am using Mandrake 7.1. But it's not quite meeting my needs as
> a mailserver. Seems to be too desktop oriented for what I want to do.
>
> I've tried out debian, but due to the 3 day long install process just
> to get a properly wor
Hey all.
Currently I am using Mandrake 7.1. But it's not quite meeting my needs as
a mailserver. Seems to be too desktop oriented for what I want to do.
I've tried out debian, but due to the 3 day long install process just
to get a properly working box, I'm not too big a fan. If it's the bes
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