Re: Network Debian installation

1995-09-28 Thread Bruce Perens
> (Bruce Parens [sic], I hope you're listening) The idea that sprang to mind > as I read your scenarios was that we should have either an optional > base disk or a very well described recipe for adding NFS to a new > system. An NFS disk makes a lot of sense to me. There are a few different iss

Re: Network Debian installation

1995-09-28 Thread CD Rasmussen
David, I liked your letter. Since you were painting in broad strokes I see no need to pick nits but I think many of your site management concerns would be better handled by a tool like cfengine than a client-server model for dpkg. (Bruce Parens, I hope you're listening) The idea that sprang to m

Network Debian installation

1995-09-28 Thread David H. Silber
Just a few thoughts on installing Debian on Networked systems. (I was going to wait to introduce this topic until after the release, but people are already discussing it so I'll put in my $.02 now.) People have been talking about installing packages on Debian systems which share certain partitio