On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote: > I'm in favour of this because I think it's the only distribution that > lets me install in the following way. > > Other well know distributions don't let me get a kernel up an running > from scratch without needing another installation medium. This allows me > to create my partitions and then extract the mirrored dat archive off > tape and then point deselect at one of my partitions.
I really liked that too, but in my case I just installed the six disks, chuckled to myself as I realized the network was working and then FTP'd the bits I wanted to install from ftp.debian.org ;> I can't wait for the rumored new install method that has all the disk drivers possible as modules ;> If I understand that would mean that the debian pre-built kernel package would not have support for millions of disk controller and I would not have to rebuild it to strip them out.. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
