On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:53:10 +0000, Michael Stevens wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 05:25:15PM -0500, Benjamin Holzman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:05:21PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> > > Now call me a dumb fuck, but I can't see any way of installing the Debian
> > > base packages directly via ftp. Is it not possible to do a network
> > > install with any of their pre-rolled disk images?
> > It's definitely possible; I've done it. From what I can recall, I just used
> > a standard disk image and chose "APT" as the source for the base OS.
>
> You can definately do it, it's just been so long I've completely forgotten
> how.
It's easy. You just have to configure your network before choosing the install method.
This is by far the easiest option, since you only have to download one floppy by hand,
dinstall does all the rest.
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