Hi, I have been using Red Hat Linux exclusively for a little over a year now, but feel that it is time to reinstall my system sometime soon. I was thinking I would like to switch to Debian, but have a few questions:
1. The first thing is that I would like to install completely via ftp. I have a CD burner, but I'm not very interested in burning a CD for one time use if I don't have to. With RH I just have to get the network boot disk image and boot off that and from there it gets everything else it needs from the ftp site and path that I specify. It even sets up DHCP for my @home cable modem configuration. I have read over the Debian installation methods and it doesn't seem quite as easy (nor did I expect it to be), but I just want to be clear on what must be done. As I understand it I need a rescue disk to boot, a root disk to get the installation started and then driver disks? base disks? Can I not go directly to getting things off the network after booting in with the rescue and root disks? 2. Another thing that I'm wondering about is that I would like to install Woody rather than Potato to get all the latest packages, but there seem to be no disks for Woody. Can I use the Potato disks and then install Woody packages, or how does that work? Or is Woody completely unstable at this point as opposed to "not completely stable"? 3. This isn't really related to the installation procedure, but I was just wondering why Woody still uses XFree86 3.3.6 and not 4.0.1 (for the video cards that are supported), or am I missing something? Thanks for the help. -Jeff
