Re: [TCLUG:10144] Slackware Install

[Ben Beuchler <insyte@ender.squad51.net>]

Actually, that sounds like fun!  I may have to try that on my next
install...

Ben

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> >However, when I started looking in to doing just that, I discovered
> >that it would take just shy of 30 disks to install sets A and N.  If
> >you're willing to spend a couple of hours writing to and installing from
> >floppies, it should work just fine!
>         I've done an entire Debian install from floppies; just installed the
> base disks (7 of them); and then chose the packages I needed after that.
> I've installed over 70MB of packages that way. 
>         it may seem like a silly thing to do; but I recommend doing it once.
> it teaches you a lot about what packages are dependent on what. Debian is a
> good distro this way; their web site is pretty helpful about package
> dependencies; and if you go to irc.debian.org, #debian has a help bot which
> will find which package owns a needed file, as well as lively human help. :)
>         after the first time you may want to go back to more massive install
> methods, tho. :)
> 
> sometimes doing things just for perversity's sake,
> Carl Soderstrom
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