Re: A minimalist network

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 8/19/2016 10:46 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Richard,
>
> On 8/19/16 10:08 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > NO <GRIN>
> > I physically have two other machines on my desk which could
> > serve nicely to connect to the internet. Connecting either of
->them to<- missing words
> > the T43 or R61 has NEVER been considered ;)
>
> Perhaps a stupid question, but you describe
>
> > "The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie
> > installed. Consider it a laboratory experiment. It can have
> > multiple installs in a day. It intentionally has *NO* internet
> > connectivity. It has a small partition set aside for
> > preseed.cfg and miscellaneous scripts."
>
> It seems to me that it's awfully cumbersome doing "multiple
> installs in a day" without a network connection.   Sure, you can
> burn a minimal system to a live-CD or DVD, but as soon as you
> want anything more (say some of those tools for experimenting
> with networking), you need to pull stuff from a repository, or it
> gets VERY cumbersome.
>
> So... how are you doing all of those installs?

From COMPLETE sets of purchased DVD's. I started out with only a 
dialup connection. I now have T-Mobile's smallest data plan. Some 
of my key decisions were made on aesthetic more than technical 
considerations.