Jeff Green wrote: > Why download the CD? seems daft to me. Just download 5 floppies and then > let the install followed by apt-get download what you actually want.
Unless you are on a dial-up PPP connection, in which case you must also download the base package. I *just* went through this not too long ago. The 'net install does *not* support installing the base packages via PPP. However, having said that - once I got the base installed everything else went smoothly. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E | for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom.