I purchased on of the Cheap bytes CDs a few weeks back (Debian 1.2) and want to report on my success using it.
My problem: I wanted to make a full blown recovery system by using a EZ 135 removable SCSI HD. Solution: I did an initial install from the CD to the EZ135. I partitioned the drive into a small swap (32Mb) and left the rest (~100Mb) for root. All one partition. I generated the rescue, driver and base disks from Windows 95 using the rawrite2.exe program. I then booted the rescue disk and installed the system with only one minor glitch, that I caused. I didn't even try to change the dselect packages, instead I went directly to install after selecting access mode, etc. Dselect complained about perl, but all went pretty well. It took all of the 100 Mb of disk. I had less than 1 Mb left on disk after it finished. I then removed all of the TeX related stuff, all of the mail related stuff and a couple of other unnecessary packages. It looks good. Congrats, folks. This is the first time in 3 years that I have actually done an install without giving up on dselect and using dpkg. Of course, I didn't really use dselect. 8^) I was surprised how quickly it installed. In the past the default boot disks have paused for long periods of time and/or died when it got confused about the hardware configuration, but this time it worked flawlessly. Thought I'd express my gratitude for a job well done and tell everyone that the Cheap bytes CD seems to work, in at least one case without error. Jim. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269