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Re: Running base-config from within first stage installer



On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:53:52PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > It saves me a reboot, and speeds up the install.
> 
> That saves time only until you discover, after labourously installing
> all of debian, that the boot loader failed to install properly and you
> then have to repeat the whole install again. No thanks.

Yup! Happened to me many a time. I personally find the split install very
helpful as i can get on with configuring the box whilst packages are still
being downloaded. I wouldnt want it any other way =)

Cheers,

Rob
-- 
Rob 'robster' Bradford
Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/
Developer: http://www.debian.org/
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