Yep, that's how I did it. I found the best way was to setup anonymous ftp on the desktop and point apt at it on the portable (after the plip link has been setup of course). Install the base system on the portable using floppies, plip can be setup from there.
If your desktop has only one cdrom you may have some problems since I don't think you can really use apt in a multi-cd kind of way. My desktop has 2 cdroms (a read only and a writer) so I mounted both disks under the ~ftp tree and used 2 apt entries in the sources.list on my laptop. You might have to consider copying files from the cd to your desktop's hard drive. HTH Matthew Brian Schramm wrote: > > Has anyone had good luck with installing Debian from a plip conection to a > desktop with a cd in it? I have a portable that has no cd and I would > like to tie it to my desktop with a cd so I can install it that way. > > Thanks > > Brian Schramm > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.linuxexpert.org > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
