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Re: slink is gone, goals for potato?



On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Alexander N. Benner wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Ship's Log, Lt. Edward Betts, Stardate 020399.0045:
> > 
> > Boot disk:
> > Move to bzip2 for install disk should get some more space
> > Install from serial line
> 
> It should also be possible to install debian over the Internet from one disk.
> RedHat you boot from disk, choose ftp as method and ... everything's on your
> box in 15 min. apt should be able to do this as well, should't it?

It is, actually.

As long as you know of a public NFS mirror.

In the UK, we have sunsite.org.uk:/public, and I've done plenty of
installations this way (actually, you do need two disks, the drivers disk
and the rescue disk).

Jules
 
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