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Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Install question
From: Wayne White <WWHITE1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 07:22:12 -0600
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At 11:45 PM 01/17/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>It should be easy with the CD in a Linux machine--you can either set up an
>FTP server on that machine, and then install Debian over the network via FTP
>just as though you were running a standard Debian mirror.  Alternately (and
>probably less desireable) you could set up an NFS server, and access the CD
>over NFS--this is probably slower and harder to set up than the FTP option,
>though.
>
>
Great, will the Debian boot disk have an ftp client on it to use? Will I need
to assign an IP to the new machine so that it can ftp over the LAN? If so,
how?
Having only installed Red Hat before, I am feeling a little overwhelmed by the
Debian install. I really would like to give Debian a try though.

Thanks for the help,

Wayne
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