On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 13:53, Chris Schumann wrote: > > Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:54:16 -0600 > > From: Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > In the past, the first CD has been enough for a minimal > > installation. (I can't speak to recent disties because I get the DVD > > image.) > > If you turn off the three package selection options, you only need the first > two CDs. You say that like that's not very much. If one unselects *all* of the optional installs then it seems reasonable that a single 700MB CD should be enough. > > You could also get the boot CD image, and use that to install from the > > Internet. However, that strikes me as slow and error prone. > > You can boot from six floppies and install over a network too. And it's not > too slow or error prone if the "server" is in the same room. > > http://www.thisiscool.com/fcfloppy.htm I do like that, however.
