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Re: Debian installer



On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:20:14PM +1100, Penguin wrote:
| How does it work? Broad overview: does it install a root filesystem and 
| simply do a huge cp /mnt/cdrom/package /wherever then configure, or what?

It depends on what you tell it to do.  It does all the basic setup of
a system (partition tables, keyboard type, etc) and puts a base system
on the partition you specify.  The base system is enough to boot up,
file management, and install additional packages.

-D

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