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Distribution: Debian Wheezy, Jessie, Sid/Experimental, playing with LFS.
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No you don't need 52 CDs. CD 1 will give you a basic install with Gnome. Even better DVD 1 will give you a full Gnome install and I think you can even choose KDE, LXDE, XFCE if you'd prefer.
The full CD or DVD set is just if you want every package Debian has available.
Distribution: PCLinuxOS2023 Fedora38 + 50+ other Linux OS, for test only.
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The cdrom's : If you have no DVD burner.
DVD's : If you have no internet connection.
But you will never need all 42.500 packages and their source code.
And : You don't get updates from DVD's.
So it's always a good idea with a netinstall :
You get the latest updates at once.
A basic install is about 1100 packages.
With the usual development tools / libraries : 1400 packages.
Listing installed packages ( in a text file ) :
1) dpkg get-selections > installed-packages.txt
2) ls -tl /var/lib/dpkg/info/ | grep list > last-packages.txt
I have #G Internet connection with USB Stick
If I clear Install cant make a net instalation. But if i download the DVD1 then once i connect i can update not?
Distribution: OpenSUSE 13.2 64bit-Gnome on ASUS U52F
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You can just download and burn CD 1 that is the one with the installation tool once installed you can install more applications using apt-get. Gnome two is the GUI you will have after inatallation.
yes and bakc in ubuntu 9 i had troubles. At boo my 3G USB was auto detected and worked.
Well as soon as i downloaded the upgrades it was sugggesting, it stoped!
lool evne if i chosed the former version before os boot!
(had make a micro channge at 9.0.x
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52 CDs iso to install Debian Squeeze amd64 ?!
