Re: newbie+potato+Classic=? [was CDU561 misadventures]
Hello, all-
For what it's worth, I did an essentially complete potato install over
a 33.6 modem[1]. The fact that I was doing the install through another
machine doing IP masquerading meant that I was able to pretend it was
a standard network install, but if you have copies of base2_2.tgz and
drivers.tgz already, then it should (someone feel free to correct me
on this, I've never actually tried it) be fairly straightforward to
just tell it to do the install over PPP once the base system is up and
running.
That said, it will take a while. I can sustain about 10MB/hour through
a 33.6 modem, so I expect that translates to around 8 or 9 MB/hour on a
28.8. It's a long time, granted, but if you let it go overnight, you
end up sleeping through the bulk of it, which softens the demands on
your attention span substantially.
For what it's worth, I have potato running on a Classic (among several
other systems), and have nothing but good things to say about it.
Good luck-
David
[1] In the interests of full disclosure, the install was on a pentium
notebook, but that's really immaterial. The install process is very
smooth and consistent across Alpha, Sparc and x86, and, like I said,
the only thing that my machine could tell was different from a 'real'
net install was that the pipe was ... skinny.
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Ben Roberts wrote:
> You can put the files anywhere you like for things like base2_2.tgz, then tell
> the installer where to look for them. THe same goes for drivers.tgz; I agree
> you don't want to put all of those onto floppies :-) Also make sure that if
> you're using cdrw's that their formatting is compatible with your drive.
>
> But for the packages themselves I don't know... but one thing you can do is
> make a fake cd set with all the stuff you really need; get all the packages as
> well as the Packages.gz or whatever, and keep the directory structure intact.
> That COULD work... but you may need to remake the Packages.gz file for each
> cdrw, so that would be a challenge. Any change you can just get a whole lot of
> network cable strung to your friend's place with the ADSL connection? :-)
>
> The last option, which isn't that bad, is to configure apt to do http
> downloads, then individually select which major packages (i.e. not supporting
> packages, apt does that) you want via apt-get install <package>. Apt will
> prompt you asking if you want to do it and what packages it will download,
> including dependencies (the glory of apt!). Quit apt then copy the packages
> over to its temporary directory off the cdrw, then run it again. Voila! It's
> better than downloading them at least.
>
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>
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> motherboard."
> -- Ben Roberts, refering to his SPARC
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