"Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > Damon dabbled, > > > Seeing Debian is such an internet-centric (ie., apt) distribution, it > > would be nice if you could install the whole thing with one the one or > > two boot disks (I'm sure you can with redhat). Even if the boot disk had > > a little FTP client (like wget or curl), so you could switch to a VT and > > put them on that newly made EXT2 partition. > > This *is* the install method for FreeBSD. But they had to go to two disks > about two releases ago, seems they'v accumulated too many drivers.
Of course, RedHat 6.0 has a single-disk ftp/nfs/http install system... :-) Installed it on my Sony Vaio Z505S, which has a USB floppy so single-disk was mandatory; then from RedHat downloaded the Debian images and installed Debian- without ever using Windoze! Refund here we come... :-) It would be nice if Debian had a similar one-floppy net install arrangement. Zeen, -Adam P.