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How would you create those disks to setup your PC for FTP installs
-----Original Message-----
From: LeRoy D. Cressy [mailto:ldc@netaxs.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 12:03 PM
To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
Subject: 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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