It also may be worthwhile to try to make an ISO of the debian CDROM(s)
and mount them on loopback. I'm not sure how the speed would be
compared to a native cdrom, ive used loopback before and dont have any
performance complaints. Also you would not get the cdrom
timeouts/screwups that happen(happ
I'm installing debian via ethernet to many machines in sucession as part
of "Ernie's Charity Recycling". I've managed to get the install process
working. This is installation on computers without CDROMs (they're
scarce) via a server with a CDROM.
However, the overhead of nfs, a slow CDROM on the
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