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Old 04-25-2004, 12:15 AM   #1
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I know you have heard this a hundred times but...


I want to install Debian Sid. That being said bandwidth is not a problem so how many of the ISO's do I actually need? Also while i'm typing what is the best wireless card for linux, I have a Linksys WPC11 ver.4 which I have never been able to get to work. I would like one that was automatically detected or little configuration needed.
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Old 04-25-2004, 12:23 AM   #2
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well although i never used debian before, i think to my knowledge that all you really need is disc1 (depending on country) and as of the wireless card, i also don't make use of wireless, but i hear netgear cards are good ... and also "from what i hear" linksys are not that "simplistic" to get working....
but if anything i say is wrong or not accurate, i am sure someone will say something.
 
Old 04-25-2004, 12:28 AM   #3
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http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
just download image ~30 megs and burn it the rest will install from the net
that's how i did works for stable, testing and unstable.
 
Old 04-25-2004, 08:52 AM   #4
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I tried that and it would not work for me. So I an going to try ISO's seeing as how the net installer is still in beta mode. I sould have been more clear, I do want at least KDE installed. I have cd's 1-5 so I quess I will just butrn them all and start.
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Old 04-25-2004, 09:13 AM   #5
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Originally posted by blmartin777
I tried that and it would not work for me. So I an going to try ISO's seeing as how the net installer is still in beta mode. I sould have been more clear, I do want at least KDE installed. I have cd's 1-5 so I quess I will just butrn them all and start.
Thanks
Debian Installer Beta 3 has already reached a very usable state BUT like with anything that is BETA...be prepared for some quikiness. If you can afford it, install it on a brand new or spare HD. The entire installation SURPRISINGLY is very UNEVENTFUL and as EASY if NOT EASIER than a Libranet 2.7 Classic install. Yeah, it does NOT have the polish of your eye candy Mandrake/SuSE install routine i.e. the Sarge Installer is ncurses based aka win2k like. The partition tool used if my memory serves me right is cfdisk or something similar. Too many who have gone through the police "interrogation" like, cryptic Woody install, Sarge will be WELCOME and PLEASANT improvement. Of course for the more geekish ones, you will be DISAPPOINTED in how little end user intervention is required.
 
Old 04-25-2004, 09:15 AM   #6
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if you don't want to use a sid netinst iso you could burn just your first (woody?) cd and use it to boot and install the base debian system, then edit sources.list to include the unstable tree and go from there installing kde etc

of course you could burn all your cds and stick with a woody installation
 
Old 04-25-2004, 09:19 AM   #7
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if you don't want to use a sid netinst iso you could burn just your first (woody?) cd and use it to boot and install the base debian system, then edit sources.list to include the unstable tree and go from there installing kde etc

of course you could burn all your cds and stick with a woody installation
Yipes! that's 7 CDs in total I think ...the first one and the bf24 one should suffice
 
Old 04-25-2004, 12:47 PM   #8
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My keyboard would not work in the Debian installer so I used Mepis and apted everything I have a pretty good system going so far but the mouse is really quick and jerky and I can't get he 2.6.5 kernel to work properly. When I try to boot the 2.6.5 it says

loading usb support mount point not found or something to that nature.

Oh well it gives me something to do anyway.
 
Old 04-25-2004, 01:02 PM   #9
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I just got 2.6.5 to boot but it took about five minutes until it got to the login screen in kdm but there were all kinds of error messages. Is anybody else having this same problem? I guess i'll stay at 2.6.4 for now unless someone might know why it is doing this.
 
Old 04-25-2004, 10:05 PM   #10
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When i asked that same question a few weeks ago the answer i got was... download the first iso, then use apt-get to get whatever else you need... this way you get the most recent versions....

Make sense? did 2 me...

i haven't got to the apt-get part yet...but it does make sense
 
  


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