On Saturday 17 January 2015 20:38:25 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 17 January 2015 13:04:09 Clive Standbridge did opine > > It's a bit late now, but you might have had much lighter download > > using the network installation CD. Three DVDs is about 13GB; I doubt > > that most installations would be that big. With the network > > installation you boot from a CD (222MB download) which then downloads > > only the packages that will be installed. See > > https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > Unfortunately, the last 9 debian/ubuntu flavored installs, on 4 machines > here, have all ran up against Network-Mangler, which promptly tore down > any attempts I successfully made to get it online. [snip] <rant against Network Mangler, us and the Universe>
Gene - I use the network install Debian CD and for years used static IPs. No problem. When it gets to the point of looking for a network you ask to set it up manually and do so. Home and dry. No problems. No Network Mangler (If you *will* use Ubuntu what do you expect???). Network set up how you want it. You just have to stay awake and not blindly click <enter> or let the defaults go ahead willly nilly. ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201501181100.55938.lisi.re...@gmail.com
