Re: [linux-audio-user] A little scared of Debian, was Fresh PC waiting for basic installation - Advice?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] A little scared of Debian, was Fresh PC waiting for basic installation - Advice?
From: Robin Millette (millette_AT_waglo.com)
Date: Sat Jul 10 2004 - 11:11:08 EEST


Them wrote:

> connection, I even recommend getting the compact installer -- you
> download 2 floppy disk images, burn them to a boot disk and a root disk,
> then most of the installation is done via the net. I install all of my
> Debian boxes with this method -- you are insured to get the latest from
> Debian (if you are foolhardy like me, you can install testing/unstable
> to get the bleeding edge stuff):
>
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/images/floppy/

I had to use four floppies: net drivers and cd-rom drivers (without the latter I
couldn't see my hard drives).

20 minutes after I inserted the last floppy, I was up in X.

-- 
Robin Millette (aka Lord D. Nattor)
http://rym.waglo.com/wordpress/



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