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It's been about 3 years since I tried Debian - so I'm downloading sarge now via that jigdo thing.
Anyway - looks like a LOT of iso's - 12 of them.
Initially I'm downloading the first five - suspecting that some of them are source and aren't necessary for the install. Am I right? If so - which CD's are binary and which are source - or are they all binary?
I can't seem to find it in any of the debian.org docs I've looked at.
I'm downloading the 3/20/04 release if it matters.
I have used the first 5 and find it has covered everything that I need or use I should say. Gnome,KDE,xfce etc all included and a really good package assortment.
I just downloaded the first 2, and that gave me enough for a decent GUI'd install with net connection, and from there, I just apt-getted the rest off of the 'net. With "Woody", I downloaded the whole set of CDs but found I really only used maybe the first 2 or 3.
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Re: Sarge - which CD's are needed?
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Originally posted by FunkyRes It's been about 3 years since I tried Debian - so I'm downloading sarge now via that jigdo thing.
Anyway - looks like a LOT of iso's - 12 of them.
I usually grab the first two ISOs if I need them. I believe the Debian packages are distributed in the order of popularity across the ISOs, so most common stuff should be on the first few.
If you've got a permanent net connection and you won't want a copy of the CDs for later, you can do a net install. I am at the moment doing a net install of Sarge on my main PC (21% as I speak) from the business card ISO. There's also a 100Mb ISO which contains Debian base (to get the system running) then it downloads everything else you need: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/test...86-netinst.iso
During the install, Debian prompts for sources - you tell it about all the CDs you've got, then you can also add an FTP source to the list so if you've got a network connection to the net (or PPP I believe) then it will download anything it can't find on your CDs via that.
Originally posted by Technonotice
During the install, Debian prompts for sources - you tell it about all the CDs you've got, then you can also add an FTP source to the list so if you've got a network connection to the net (or PPP I believe) then it will download anything it can't find on your CDs via that.
The net install doesn't work with PPPoE.
Not with anything I tried. Which is too bad - adsl is very common.
Originally posted by FunkyRes The net install doesn't work with PPPoE.
Not with anything I tried. Which is too bad - adsl is very common.
Nope... I haven't seen a PPPoE install system - likewise there's no support for PCI ISDN cards AFAIK. Neither of which affect me luckily - I run my ADSL through a router serving my LAN.
On the same line of thought, do you have another system that can act as a router for your PC?
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