Steve Meyer grabbed a keyboard and typed... > I have an old 486 without a cdrom in it. If I pull the hard drive and > stick it in another machine to perform the install will this work? And if > it does work will it make the system any less secure?
Since it's Debian, you don't need to stick it in a separate machine. Just get enough floppies and do the install over a network :) The only way this would be insecure is if someone broke into the machine you're installing from and you copied over bad files. -Anne -- .-"".__."``". Anne Carasik, System Administrator .-.--. _...' (/) (/) ``' gator at cacr dot caltech dot edu (O/ O) \-' ` -="""=. ', Center for Advanced Computing Research ~`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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