Distributions - was Re: [plug] Red Hat 7

[Nick Bannon]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 02:42:24PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
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> Okay, then, what we need to do now, is get the CD's. I should probably
> have asked a bit more about it, and, got a set, at the installfest. How
> can we get the CD's?

I imagine someone can burn you a set and bring them to the next
meeting for a nominal fee, or you can get them by mail order.

> Is there any problem, installing Debian using NFS, using a CD drive in a
> computer that is not running Debian?

No... NFS clients can, by and large, talk to NFS servers...

Were you expecting a problem?

> Also, how much hard disk space is needed? When we put RH 6.2 on my
> computer, from memory, it took about 800MB, apart from the swap
> partition. That was setting it up to be used as a development
> workstation.

Depends entirely on how much you install. You can get up and running
on a tenth of that, no worries. No need to preinstall everything, just
put things on as you need them.

Nick.

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