RE: Can't get off the ground
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 12:15, Jason Housewright wrote:
> Thanks Kev. Your help is truly appreciated. I had
> "read" right through that info earlier. It didn't make
> sense though becuase I wasn't getting anything like
> what was described in the doc. It wouldn't have been a
> problem on my main PC. That's ok. I decided to forget
> about doing a net install and simply download whole
> iso's. I have another, probably easier question: I
> certainly don't want to dl all 7 CD's. That was why I
> wanted to do a net install. At this point, I just want
> to get a base system going, then use apt-get to bring
> it up to speed. How many of the images should I dl to
> do this most efficiently. I read in the documentation
> that probably around 3 would suffice. How many would
> y'all suggest? Would two do the trick...one? Thanks
> for the help and direction.
>
> Jason
>
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Hi Jason,
just the first one is enough, if you're running standard
hardware (x86, ide, pci-eth, vga) Don't know about pcmcia though ;-)
Just try. I recently had to use the second disk for the first time
for a net based install because it ran scsi disks.
Sincerely,
Jan.
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