Gary, I know SuSE lets you install over the Internet via either a boot CD or boot floppies. You can download the boot CD ISO or the boot floppy images for SuSE 9.0 from ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/boot.
I have a local mirror of the entire SuSE 8.1 and 9.0 trees. Is there a way that I can share this with HOSEF? It's pretty big...8.1 is 5.5 GB and 9.0 is 7.3 GB. I won't open this mirror up cause RoadRunner will smack me down, so don't ask :) Dwight... > On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:31:58 -1000 > Vince Hoang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 06:55:56PM -1000, Andrew Keyes wrote: >> > I have a four year old 550MHz machine which had a 10GB hard drive. >> I just purchased a new 80GB drive and am looking for >> recommendations on how to make the most of it. >> >> Slice it up into many partitions to make room for all the >> distributions you are going to try. > > Suppose Andrew (the original poster) wants to try Debian, Mandrake, and > Fedora. Can he create one partition for home and use that with whichever > distro he boots? > >> > Secondly should I download and make some CDs first and then do an >> install, are the CD images on the videl server somewhere? >> >> ftp://hosef.ics.hawaii.edu/IMAGES/ has a ton of ISOs. > > To me this is not an either/or. Wherever the ISO files are hosted, they > need to be downloaded and burned. I know that FreeBSD can be installed > via an Internet connection, after booting from a pair of diskettes. I > think Gentoo does something similar. Do other distros offer this method?
