mixing media, was talking debian install.

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 12:32:04AM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> is it possible to  mix media if that media is in different drives?
> In this case, I would boot and start the installation from the cd
> drive in my computer.  However I would be finishing installations an
> external DVD drive attached to a USB port.
> Still possible?

Yes, this should still work, since the installer searches for media
before actually starting to do the install. So, you should in fact be
able to boot from an internal cd drive, and do the install from dvd in
an external drive, provided debian recognizes the external drive,
which it should. HTH.

Greg


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