New Install Idea

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 06:39:47PM +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > With the new Debian you down load 1 cd to start the install.  The
> > install then downloads all needed packages from the internet, thus you
> > system already has the latest version of all software that it install.
> > No need to install then wait another hour while it updates your
> > system.
[...]
> Fedora and Red Hat have had this for ages.
> Download the boot.iso from your friendly Fedora mirror and burn it to CD
> (or diskboot.img and write it to USB pen). Boot from it, and it should
> give you the option of NFS, FTP or HTTP installs.

Except, it doesn't install the newest versions, unless you've gone out of
your way to rebuild a repository containing them. Normally, you still have
to do updates after the installation is complete.

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