[H-GEN] Debian install newbie

[David Duffy]

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> David Duffy wrote:
> 
>> I added the last line and commented out the 1st two lines.
>> The machine is shutdown now so I can't try anything more
>> until tomorrow night after work. It's in my son's bedroom
>> and was keeping him awake! I'll make room for it in the
>> cupboard with the RH7.3 box tomorrow and try again. I can
>> SSH into it so at least that's something I guess! :-)

Michael Anthon wrote:
> Heh, he needs to be trained to stay awake later then.  Try with the 3 
> lines (and only the 3 lines) from my earlier email, leave the others in 
> there if you like, just make sure they are all disabled.  I haven't done 
> a full CD install for a while so I'm not sure about the lines for the 
> CD, does seem a bit odd though.
> 
> I generally use the net install CDs.  These are about 80M or so and have 
> everything required to get a base system up and running and during the 
> install it sets up the sources.list to point at whatever mirror you tell 
> it.

Hmmm... might be worth a look. Is that on debian.org ?

> Can be a bit slow on dialup though.

I have ADSL here (256/64)and at work (512/128) so that's ok.
David...
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