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. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> --> Fedora Users & Developers Conference, hosted by Boston University <-- February 18th, 2005 <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon1>
