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To: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> Subject: Re: [svlug] Want a dial up server! Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 19:33:05 -0700 From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> On Sun, 8 Oct 2000 17:50:42 -0700 Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote: > begin J C Lawrence quotation: >> I just built and installed an i486-50 with a 1x (yes, really) >> non-ATAPI (custom adaptor card) Mitsume CD-ROM drive. First boot >> from floppies, pull the base image off CD, edit >> /etc/apt/sources.list and point it at a nearby woody mirror, hit >> dselect about the head, and let rip. An hour or so later (it has >> a damned slow HD) I've got a working install. > You actually _didn't_ need to pull the base image off CD: You > could have installed that as a single HTTP fetch from the > installer's default source. It might even have been faster. I didn't have networking working yet... > Thus, you could have performed this installation using either two > or five floppies only (plus network access to some Debian mirror, > either local or over the Internet). Whether it would require two > or five would depend on how broad a driver set you needed. Aye -- I was doing the two floppy business and needed a wider driver set (or so it seemed). That said I blew (or more accurately Seth did) several people at work away when I pulled out LinuxCare's BCCD and did a full Debian install from such a tiny CD. Very nice job. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw@kanga.nu ---------(*) Other: coder@kanga.nu http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Keys etc: finger claw@kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=-- === Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 19:47:09 -0700 From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> To: svlug@svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Want a dial up server! begin J C Lawrence quotation: > That said I blew (or more accurately Seth did) several people at > work away when I pulled out LinuxCare's BCCD and did a full Debian > install from such a tiny CD. Very nice job. I just love that thing -- and haven't even used it for a Debian install, yet. (I assume it puts in 2.1/slink.) I always keep a copy in the very front of my installation kit. -- Cheers, "Besides, Debian runs Web sites, Red Hat runs Rick Moen Quake, and Windows runs Half-Life." rick@linuxmafia.com -- Bryce Kerley (on Slashdot) ===