Sorry for replying to myself again with further thoughts ... Another option to consider is to partition your hard drive and copy all the DVD/iso contents there, and then tell the installer to read the files from there while it is installing to a different partition on the same hard drive.
Why am I offering these suggestions? Because from my own experience doing the same thing, anything you can do to avoid using dvd media or flash drives during the actual install is going to be a huge bonus for you, because installing off slow media is *very* slow comparing to installing of fast local media such as another partition on your hard drive or on another local machine. It can can reduce install time from many hours to minutes. Once you have done an install off fast media, you will see! This applies especially if your install process has interactive questions or prompts, because you don't have to spend very long periods of time wondering when they are going to appear. That becomes very tedious if you have to repeat the exercise more than once. The more times you are intending to run a trial install (and it's my impression that is your intention), the more this advice is relevant! Best of luck! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAMPXz=o7FcHU0s3uoBjo5oEti=6wbHEX_AYo=fTkicfu5xw=v...@mail.gmail.com
