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Re: FreeBSD --> Debain: any good reason?



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Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 11:24:16 AM, Thomas wrote:
> Also, one of the other respondents mentioned the net installation...
> I'll add on to that by saying that you don't necessarily need 7
> disks--if you toss the tgz's for the base files and driver files onto a
> hard disk partition (and then load them during the installation), then
> you only need 2 floppies.

    For the net installation you only need 2 floppies.  Well, at least as of
Potato as one of the options is to retrieve base from an http server.  I think
there is also an NFS option but I didn't have NFS setup on my main boxen at
the time I was doing the install.

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