Re: How do I do an ftp install?

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 21 Apr, Chris Gray wrote about "How do I do an ftp install?"
> I got sold on Debian after reading today's discussion on slashdot.
> However, there doesn't seem to be anything in the Debian web site about
> how one goes about installing from ftp.  It only tells me that it is
> possible.  So what disk images, etc. do I need?
> Thank you in advance,
> Chris Gray
> 
> 

Once you have booted into the base system you need to set up PPP, see
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-init-config.en.html#s-PPP.
Then read http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/dselect-beginner.html
and start dselect.  Configure the apt Access method for you favorite
Debian http or ftp mirror(http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors)
and you are off.  Sit back and watch a movie.

Enjoy,

-- 
Brian 
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