Carlton, I think the reason for doing a network installation is not as what you think.
Network installation is for system administrator to install over a local area network where he/she has control of. Network installation is by no means cater for the instability of the internet where bandwidths fluctuate between hops. A everyday system administrator will actually download a copy of the OS into a personal server and then perform installation over the network. If you read the website of Ubuntu, you will see that they actually encourages you to download the base CD edition (it's just one CD, not 17-19 as you state) or request for a free one. After a base installation then you can download the additional packages. This way is to reduce the loads on the primary servers as well as any mirrors you use. And this has been a long and well thought-out method to ensure Linux can reach the masses. As for the reliable uptime, it is already something for a commercial entity to provide, let alone a voluntary initiative like a Linux community. Maybe you will argue that Ubuntu is supported by a company named Canonical with a billionaire Mark Shuttleworth to pour cash in but even that doesn't justify an uptime like Google. As for the nus mirror, the others have explained which I understand, having graduated from SoC myself. The school is now in the midst of shifting buildings and the network infrastructure will undoubtedly get affected. Mind you, hosting a Linux mirror is of no priority when coming to serving the school population with their daily lecture-on-demand videos. Besides, Ubuntu 8.04 has only been released just a week ago. I am sure the servers would have been swarmed for updates. I don't have any issue updating my 7.10 on Wednesday via the sg.ubuntu but I am delaying my upgrade to 8.04 till a later time. Juz my two cents' worth, James Ng -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LUGS <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, 3 May 2008 1:15 pm Subject: [Slugnet] Is it safe installing Ubuntu/Debian while connected to the Internet. 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
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