[GLLUG] RHN... the Red Hat Notwork

Ben Pfaff blp@cs.stanford.edu
01 Aug 2002 11:54:53 -0700


Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:

> So I'm gonna try a network install of Debian via a few floppies and
> debian.egr.msu.edu... ;)  I was going to try a CD install, but I
> realized the download/burn process would take forever since it wouldn't
> be coming from on-campus, so I scrounged around the office for some
> reliable floppy disks...  It's sitting at the boot: prompt now waiting
> for me... Hope I grabbed the right floppy to detect the RAID card... =)

You can download a Debian CD from any Debian mirror using the
"jigdo" program.  It downloads the packages as ordinary files
then assembles them into a CD image.  See
        http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/
for details.
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