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Originally posted by Dirty_Ink
Is the Debian Sarge Install really 15 Cd's?
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You don't need all of them.
First time I downloaded 2 ISOs and get quite good amount of SW avialable KDE+Gnome+Office
Last time I've took 5 CDs....
I havn't found something I want to install that wasn't in these CDs (except for some unstable or specific external repos packages I needed - specific some codacs/players). I think I've used 5th CD only ones (for something very specific) and 4th about 2-3 times.
You can picup 4-5 first CDs and you'll get most of usefull SW packages (they are sorted in popularity order). If you have fast internet (at work for example + CD burner) and you can download 4-5 CDs you'll get very good amount of SW - and you will not need to download every little package you need.
However I wouldn't suggest to run.
#apt-get upgrade
Full system update
Because all your CDs will be useless at some point.
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One more:
If you don't have fast internet at home you can pic these CD's (or some of them) and you'll have huge amount of SW.
For example when I had not internet due to modem crash I could add some SW without
any problem.
And now when I need to add something It takes about 1-2 minutes because I don't need to download
anything.
It is much better then to install from internet.