[Debian-User] re: Network Install
I download a 128MB network installer iso so that I could use it to
download binariy and source files one at a time from over the internet.
Being new to Debian I tried to understand this process and came to
understand that all binary files are considered to be a "package" sort
of wrapped with dependency information. Apparently, when the package is
unwrapped these dependencies are determined to exist on the present
system or are required to be added.
In other words, I need a Debian system up and running (which I don't
have at the present time) and even then the packaged binaries and
sources will be unpacked and placed into the system. What I was after
was a kind of mirror located where ever I wanted on my LAN and I could
install all or some of them.. I take it that the network installer puts
together a basic system and then proceeds to install other packages as
directed by some kind of menu. This is fine, if that is how it happens,
but I want my own updateable archive from which this "network
installer" can feed .
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Could I simply do an FTP of some
Debian mirror? What I don't like about this FTP idea or the installer
as far as that goes is that many of the applications I want are not
available except from their development sites. Examples are TCL,
Python, Lisp, and many others; It lookis like I would have to (separate
from the installer and separate from the FTP ) gather these binaries and
sources one at a time site by site. Or have I got something very wrong???
Also, what complicates my effort is that I have a very low band witdth
to the Internet having to use a dial up connection from a rural area up
here in Alberta Canada.. For example, it took me a week to download the
"network installer".
Thanks Ted.
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