New Install Idea

[Gustavo Seabra]

Matthew Miller wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 06:39:47PM +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>
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>>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.
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>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.
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Is there a good reason for that? it seems to me that, since it is going 
to fetch and install all those packages, it could very well use a 'yum 
install ...' and have everything up-to-date in the first try.  Or am I 
missing something here?

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