Hi, I don't know how REDhat does it's inter net install, but
Debian doesn't have this problem. If you loose your connection,
you just restart the install command and it picks up where it
left off.
Kenny
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 06:58:40PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> We addressed this in early versions of the HOWTO_INSTALL file for
> the Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution, but dropped it
> eventually for the following reason.
>
> You can, but you must restart over from the beginning if you lose
> your connection before the installation completes. On the other
> hand, you can resume a download from the point of the
> interruption with a proper download agent like ncftp (available
> for Windows as well as Linux). Go to:
>
> http://www.ncftp.com
>
> On Sat, 18 May 2002, Michael Weaver wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> > Can any flavour of Linux be setup via the Internet?
> > I keep noticing something about Linux and FTP on some of the flavours.
> > Doing it this way might be much more quicker than downloading the files onto
> > my hard drive and burning them onto CDROM which I don't have the facility to
> > do yet as I don't yet have a CD writer.
> >
> >
> >
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