Someone said, not a direct quote, that doing an Internet install wasn't safe. I wanted to make sure that it is indeed safe.
Let see. The situation. I'm installing from a condo somewhere is Singapore. The person wants to dual boot Windows and Ubuntu 8.04. The've tried installing it themselves and it never works. I've set up their router. A Speedstream something or other so that the firewall is extremely secure. Everything but 'NEW' on output is dropped. ESTABLISHED,RELATED on INPUT is allowed. No open ports facing the ISP. Ubuntu while it is installing has no open ports. It doesn't seem to be running any services that I need to worry about. After the install I need to set up their firewall of course and I need to update and upgrade. Installing everything from CD or CD-ROM complicates a very well thought out over the network installation routine. Frankly I don't like the waste involved in burning the 19 CD's that I then need to carry around. I love this part of the install. Hand-over. "Here you can do this again yourself. You'll need CD's 1-6, 8, 11 and 12." OK! Where is the danger! Thanks, Carlton Lee _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
