Hi,

Seems I cannot install it.

I connected to internet already but it cannot download utilities and
packages remotely.. are there any suggestions?

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Robert Millan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 06:36:11PM -0500, Daniel Clark wrote:
> > Robert Millan wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:42:27PM -0500, Daniel Clark wrote:
> > >> Also if someone needs a DVD burned/mailed to them because they are
> > >> behind a really slow connection we can arrange that (you would of
> course
> > >> need to transfer to a USB stick you own).
> > >
> > > I haven't looked into producing iso images out of my apt archive, but
> it
> > > shouldn't be hard to do by playing a bit with debian-cd scripts.
> > >
> > > Note that an USB stick can be converted into an install system by
> simply
> > > copiing an ISO image that contains a package archive to its root
> directory.
> > >
> > > BUT the netboot initrd won't use it.  A separate build of D-I will be
> needed.
> > > I can make one of those without too much effort though.  Maybe I can
> have a
> > > look tomorrow.
> >
> > I was thinking more they would have both the files they need to boot
> > from, and could just serve the other files via their local network from
> > the DVD. Just as a short-term hackish thing. Of course your way sounds
> > much better longer term :)
>
> I don't think this would be necessary.  The debian-cd scripts are easy to
> use, I
> just didn't find the time to do it.
>
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