on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:40:42PM -0600, Gregory Laprade (glaprade@yahoo.com) wrote: > On the other side of the scale, I recently did what a friend suggested > and bailed on the CD install just b4 it upacked packages and installed > them on my system...leaving me with a bootable system and (virtually) > nothing on it. I then got network support up by apt-getting from CD, > config'd some ftp sources and started apt-getting just what I needed > from the Debian mirrors. > > I think this "bare" install works great and installing as needed gives > you a really good idea of how things interact, and what package does > what. It also makes your system pretty lightweight. You will > however, sometimes have to do a little more configuration. This is my own MO and I highly recommend it. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Are these opinions my employer's? Hah! I don't believe them myself!
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