Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

["Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu>]

Damon dabbled,

> Seeing Debian is such an internet-centric (ie., apt) distribution, it
> would be nice if you could install the whole thing with one the one or
> two boot disks (I'm sure you can with redhat). Even if the boot disk had
> a little FTP client (like wget or curl), so you could switch to a VT and
> put them on that newly made EXT2 partition.

This *is* the install method for FreeBSD.  But they had to go to two disks about two releases ago, seems they'v accumulated too many drivers.
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