[aclug-L] Re: Install question

["Jeffrey L. Hansen" <jlhansen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm probably being a bit simplistic in my personal approach to this
problem, but what I would do is simply remove the CD from the other
machine, do the install (or transfer the files to the hard drive) and
proceed from there.  After the installation is complete it should be a
trivial task to return the hardware to normal config.  Am I missing
something?

jeff


On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Wayne White wrote:

> 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
>