[plug] Debian - clueless :o}

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Thu Nov 20 18:32:06 WST 2003


On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 18:20, Derek Fountain wrote:
> I thought it was about time I had a look at a debian system. I'd like to get 
> an idea of how it works and what all the fuss is about. I'm going to start by 
> installing it in a Vmware machine and see how I get on.
> 
> I friend on IRC advised me to go and get the floppy boot images and do a 
> network install from there. Right-oh. This leads to my first, and possibly 
> simplest, question:
> 
> where on WAIX can I point the installer to download the rest of the 
> distribution?
> 

I hope this helps. Although i've never actually done a net install using
floppies (using the first CD instead) I always choose during the install
where the apt sources to point. This is standard.

wa.au.debian.org is on WAIX as well as iinet's mirror and Informed
Technologies.

> I'm right up against my bandwidth cap, so it has to be a WAIX attached server!

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