on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:17:50AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > --- "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi?:
> > Size matters less than selection. Any experience installing this to > > disk to bootstrap Debian installation? > > > > I have to agree there. I have installed probably a dozen new Debian > boxes (a few Woody and moslty Sid) in the last month or so. I have > found that, without a doubt, the best way to do this (especially when > you are not sure what hardware you have) is to boot Knoppix and use it > to do a chroot install to the harddrive. That way you can Google, use > lspci, and have plenty of time and tools to poke around the machine > and get the configuration perfect before you go and boot it on its > own. And the games. You can play games ;-) Seriously: I find having a full-featured GNU/Linux system during install has many, many benefits. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/
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