[PLUG] Victor upgraded to Ubuntu 12.something

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Sat Nov 17 16:27:03 UTC 2012


On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 05:24:49 -0600
Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> dijo:

>> I have live CDs of all the above except Debian. Debian is designed to
>> be installed over the net, so there is just a very small bootable CD.

>Oh , it's definitely _designed_ for internet connected 
>install. But it will install without difficulty from either 
>the 1st CD/DVD of the set or the LiveCD. With network 
>physically disconnected, it will merrily ask about a half 
>dozen network related questions which you ignore by pressing 
><ENTER>. It will then divine that [non-existent ;] network 
>could not be configure and will present a menu including a 
>choice to configure network at a later time.

OK, I'm downloading the live CD ISOs. Oddly, the web site says they
will fit on a CD, yet each ISO is around 1 GB. Maybe they have special
CDs in Debian-land.



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