[SGVLUG] last nite's meeting - please help

[David Lawyer]

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> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:52:21PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
> > Supposedly, I install a minimal system from floppies and then get the
> > rest of the software from the Internet.  I looked into this before and
> > Debian claimed it would work but it didn't seem to explain exactly how
> > to do it.  It was called "network install" but it didn't seem to have a
> > way to dial in to an ISP to connect to connect to the Internet.
> 
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:48:21PM -0700, Dustin Laurence wrote:
> It's the only way I've ever installed Debian, and it works fine.  You
> get ethernet working and apt-get what you need.  I have never tried it
> with a modem, though--it would take a looooong time.

I tried it again, and same problem as before.  It seems to only work
for an ethernet connection to the Internet and not for an analog modem
connection (there's no software on the floppies for dialout).  So
Debian's documentation about this is misleading.   So I filed a bug
report, which (per Debian) has been posted on one of their mailing
lists.

I would hope that with a modem connection, only a minimal
command-line-interface system would be installed, so that the user
could get additional packages desired via apt-get.

			David Lawyer