Re: Installing from ISO
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 11:12:18AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 08:42:40PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>
> > If you use IDEPCI floppies with normal DESKTOP PC and NIC, you need only
> > 2 floppies for Debian. Why download packages in iso which you may not
> > use? Debian is very lean. It ain't RH.
>
> In my reply to the original poster, I suggested the download of
> basedep.tar. I thought that this was always needed initially. That
> is not true. Depending on your setup (especially the way you connect
> to the internet) you can download even the base-system, once booted
> from a floppy.
Yes. This trick is for expert who play with SPARC.
> However if you run in to trouble, it's nice to have at least the
> base system ready. It is easier to troubleshoot with a normal,
> albeit small system, than with the system that comes on the ramdisk.
Sure. For normal people on cheap i386, netinst CD image shall be one, I
think.
> I am experiencing this right now with the installation of a
> Sparcstation. Can't get NFS to work. I know it's propably on the
> server side, but checking the client side of things is a bitch
> without the normal/regular tools.
Yes. base system is more useful in this sense than just with busybox. I
used to have deb files of mc and mc-common to browse system in this
situation :) Recently, IDEPCI has been good to me.
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