On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:22:06AM -1000, Gary Dunn wrote: > Suppose Andrew (the original poster) wants to try Debian, > Mandrake, and Fedora. Can he create one partition for home and > use that with whichever distro he boots?
Andrew can easily share /home and swap. > > ftp://hosef.ics.hawaii.edu/IMAGES/ has a ton of ISOs. > > To me this is not an either/or. Wherever the ISO files are > hosted, they need to be downloaded and burned. I know that > FreeBSD can be installed via an Internet connection, after > booting from a pair of diskettes. I think Gentoo does something > similar. Do other distros offer this method? Starting out with full ISO sets for a distribution just easier. However, there are options when you want to avoid downloading 1.5GB or more. Scott stresses the importance of ISOs, and I grudgingly concur. However, you can use floppies and mini-CDs to bootstrap a network install. If you have PXE, it can be a pure network install. This is why that directory is named IMAGES and not ISO. To find the non-full ISOs, search any combination of .img or initrd. In fact the IMAGES directory is created by searching for directories containing files named with /(img|initrd|iso)/. -Vince