[Novalug] cds and dvds etc

Don E. Groves, Jr. dgrovesjr@gmail.com
Sun Dec 23 16:48:10 EST 2012


If you have a reasonable fast internet feed (DSL or better) for most
distros you can wind up with the most up to date install with patches.

Even though I have Comcast Cable here (CD about an hour or less)

Lately for my last few installs (since I normally wind up installing more
then once), I've gone the download a DVD.iso and write it to a USB stick
and install from there.
Or  Installation/FromUSBStickQuick<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStickQuick>
 note the Universal-USB-Installer program handles a number of distributions
besides Ubuntu.

Before that I had done NET installs for a few years.
See Installation/NetbootInstallFromInternet<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/NetbootInstallFromInternet>
while
this is how to do Ubuntu this way the first time I installed Debian I
installed it using a very similar method.
 See: Installing Debian via the Internet<http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst>

   (if you already have GRUB installed then you can use the trick of coping
the small images to your Grub Partition and Boot/Load then from there.)


On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Beartooth <beartooth@beartooth.info>wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Dec 2012, jecottrell3@comcast.net wrote:
>
> > I have had them refuse to erase after awhile, and various drives refuse
> to read them.
> >
> > Why do you even bother burning to physical media in the first place?
>
>         I know it's possible to install directly off the Net, but
> I've never learned how, much less what its advantages and
> disadvantages might be. Is it much the same for all distros? Is
> there a good tutorial?
>
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
> Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
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