on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:17:50AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez (rcsanchez97@yahoo.es) wrote:
> --- "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> escribi?:
> > Size matters less than selection. Any experience installing this to
> > disk to bootstrap Debian installation?
> >
>
> I have to agree there. I have installed probably a dozen new Debian
> boxes (a few Woody and moslty Sid) in the last month or so. I have
> found that, without a doubt, the best way to do this (especially when
> you are not sure what hardware you have) is to boot Knoppix and use it
> to do a chroot install to the harddrive. That way you can Google, use
> lspci, and have plenty of time and tools to poke around the machine
> and get the configuration perfect before you go and boot it on its
> own.
And the games. You can play games ;-)
Seriously: I find having a full-featured GNU/Linux system during
install has many, many benefits.
Peace.
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