At 09:24 AM 08/29/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>I watched part of what Seth was doing when he installed Debian
>from a couple of floppies. Now I want to do this in our training
>room on 5 of our computers.
>
>Where do I start?
>I started down this maze,
>ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/
> but I don't understand.
You need the following disks: rescue, root, and driver disk(s)
Using the compact or idepci versions, there is only one driver disk...
Using others, there can be more.
If you have a network connection, the rest is done via the network.
However, on a slow connection, using a CD is much faster, even though it
will be slightly out of date (potato will be really close, just security
updates needed)
We can burn disks ASAP (maybe Thursday)...
Debian's install isn't the best (everyone admits that). Stormix has a nice
install, and might be worth looking at. Corel does too, but I don't
recommend Corel (it's buggy as anything)
I will be glad to show anyone and everyone how to install Debian. And share
the 'extra' stuff I highly recommend adding (like HelixGnome, etc)
>Thanks.
>
>BTW. Our goal is to teach anything that runs on Linux GUI
>except install. We already teach anything that runs in Windows.
>Do you know any professional looking people that can teach in
>such a way as the students come away actually knowing something?
I nominate Mike Smith. He looks 'normal' :) (He's really a mutant though)
Seth
