This is a letter I sent to cooker - Mandrake.
>This night I did a rsync of mandrake-iso/7.1beta/i586. In the morning I >used a floppy with a hd.img to install it from my harddrive. > >In the / of hdb6 i have three directories /cooker, /iso and /mandrake >with images of the trees respectively. When asked what partition to use >for the base I gave: hdb6 and /iso/odyssey-rc-inst.iso - then I tab'ed >to iso-image - and the whole installation was launched. > >A swing of magic from the stick of Mandrake - fantastic. > >I could upgrade to whatever I wanted from /tmp/hdimage/ where the whole >of my hdb6 was reachable. > >Thank you very much for this facility - I wounder if it is possible to >get this program as a 'standalone' utility, so any cdrom image could be >played this way This could be the easiest way to reform debian, any newcomer could be given the opportunity to install through apt-get and part of the three iso images. The difficulties and enormous choices with dselect could be left for the more advanced users. Personally I would like as a newbie that programs like Netscape with spellchecking included could be downloaded through one choice. regards guran