Getting started w/ Debian

miah jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com
Tue Jul 20 11:13:01 EDT 2004


You can net-install redhat too, http, ftp, and nfs last I checked..
While redhat may have some stupid bugs, atleast they aren't 3 years
behind.

-miah

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:04:48AM -0400, Matthew Valites wrote:
> 
> > What does it matter how he gets it installed? I know piles of people who just 
> > want a cd to put in the drive. Maybe he doesn't have a net connection? You 
> > say it like it's a bad thing to install Debian via Knoppix.
> 
> Nothing in my email even remotely hinted at the fact that installing it
> via Knoppix is a bad idea.  One advantage of debian over redhat is it's
> netinstall feature.  If somebody's switching to debian, why not take
> advantage of that feature (obviously contingent on a network connection,
> as you pointed out)?  Also, you say "people who just want a cd to put in
> the drive".  That's what this is for:
> http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
> 
> my two cents,
> ~Matt
> 
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