LeRoy D. Cressy on Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:00:27 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] FTP installs


Hi All,

apt-get and apt-config are good good solutions for installing over ftp. 
I prefer using dselect or dpkg -iGROEB of my mirror of the Debian Potato
Distribution for just an update.  

Concerning any Linux distribution is available on the web and ``should''
be loadable through ftp or nfs.  This is how Linux originally was spread
:-)



Steve Creel wrote:
> 
> Debian's 'apt' will let you do an ftp...  you've gotta do the base set of
> like 6 disks or something, but all your normal packages are ftp-able with
> the package manager....
> 
> ____________________
> Steve Creel
> screel@nothinbut.net
> 
> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 umweber@mcs.drexel.edu wrote:
> 
> >What other distributions besides redhat allow you to install over ftp?
> >I have a box here with only a 420 meg hard drive, a nic card, and a floppy
> >drive, so ftp install is really the only option, and I wanted for once to

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