On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Tom E. Craddock, Jr. wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 13:05, Eben King wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Tom E. Craddock, Jr. wrote:
> >
> > > (no changing CDs, only have to burn a 4MB iso, etc.).
> >
> > 4MB? Seems kinda silly to put something small enough to fit on three
> > floppies on a DVD. Or DYM 4GB?
> No, I mean 4MB. Its a boot.iso thats in the image dir of disc 1 of the
> FC install CDs.
Install-over-internet? What about people who want to install it on a
standalone machine? Is there a big repository you can dl, or a series of
ISOs?
> as I learned recently when I bought my new laptop, a floppy drive isnt a
> standard device anymore on a PC (well laptops at least, have to buy a
> USB one for this HP if i wanted it),
Same for my Thinkpad. I knew from the online blurb that it had no FD, so
when I bought it I bought one of those too (not from IBM).
> So I burn that one disc keep it safe, it boots up the PC I want to
> install FC2 on, I provide the location of my FC2 YAM repository (HTTP on
> my local network)
I did that with my distro (actually it's file:// not http://). Much more
convenient that way.
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