Re: Debian Etch Install

[Justin The Cynical <cynical@penguinness.org>]

Rick Thomas wrote:

> The Lenny "businesscard" iso at
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-503-i386-businesscard.iso 
>
>
> is only 36 MBytes.
>
> It contains everything you need to start the installation.  It will 
> dynamically download all the other packages you need for your 
> *particular* installation, and *only* those things.  When you are 
> bandwidth constrained, it's by far the best installation method for 
> minimizing total waiting time.
>
> And, it has the advantage of automatically giving you -- as an integral 
> part of the installation process -- all the security and stability 
> updates that have happened since the distribution was created.

And to improve upon this, let me suggest setting up an apt-get cache, 
such as apt-cacher or apt-cacher-ng, and tell the machines to use the 
new apt proxy.  This alone will save you a lot of time (and bandwidth) 
when installing on multiple machines of the same arch when using a net 
install.