[luau] upgrading

[elua at aikanaka.com]

Gary,

I know SuSE lets you install over the Internet via either a boot CD or
boot floppies.  You can download the boot CD ISO or the boot floppy images
for SuSE 9.0 from ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/boot.

I have a local mirror of the entire SuSE 8.1 and 9.0 trees.  Is there a
way that I can share this with HOSEF?  It's pretty big...8.1 is 5.5 GB and
9.0 is 7.3 GB.  I won't open this mirror up cause RoadRunner will smack me
down, so don't ask :)

Dwight...


> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:31:58 -1000
> Vince Hoang <luau at ml.altern8.net> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 06:55:56PM -1000, Andrew Keyes wrote:
>> > I have a four year old 550MHz machine which had a 10GB hard drive.
>> I  just purchased a new 80GB drive and am looking for
>> recommendations on  how to make the most of it.
>>
>> Slice it up into many partitions to make room for all the
>> distributions you are going to try.
>
> Suppose Andrew (the original poster) wants to try Debian, Mandrake, and
> Fedora. Can he create one partition for home and use that with whichever
> distro he boots?
>
>> > Secondly should I download and make some CDs first and then do an
>> install, are the CD images on the videl server somewhere?
>>
>> ftp://hosef.ics.hawaii.edu/IMAGES/ has a ton of ISOs.
>
> To me this is not an either/or. Wherever the ISO files are hosted, they
> need to be downloaded and burned. I know that FreeBSD can be installed
> via an Internet connection, after booting from a pair of diskettes. I
> think Gentoo does something similar. Do other distros offer this method?