[PLUG] Problems getting Debian 2.2

[Mahadev Appan]

hello again...

thanks to all of you who responded. i really appreciate the numerous quick
helpful responses. that's one of the great things about the linux
community. 

anyway, i downloaded the ISO from the umich box given in Doug's email
below. i was trying to put debian on a 486 that is going to be firewall +
gateway for the home LAN.

it was supposed to be isolated from the rest of the world while i set it
up. however, it doesn't have a cd-rom drive. so i figured i'd connect it
via network to a box with a cd-rom drive and share the cd-rom contents via
http.

only after recompiling the kernel to support the cd-rw drive (so i could
burn the iso to cd-rom) did i realise that i didn't have to burn the iso!
you can just mount it using: 

mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 ./name-of-iso.iso /mnt/whatever

<sigh> you live and you learn, i suppose. anyway, debian is now installed
and is being locked down.

hope my little bit of stupidity helps someone trying to do the same thing.

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Doug Porter wrote:

> ISOs can be found at this mirror:
> 
> ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/debian-cd/
> 
> It is pretty fast, usually around 400 KB/s from my resnet.
> 
> - Doug Porter <dsp@purdue.edu>