[NCLUG] debian - 8 CDs worth?

[Neil Doane]

Ditto.  I do all my Debian installs with like a couple floppies and a decent
network connection.  :)


Neil


* Matt Taggart (matt at lackof.org), on [05-08-03 16:23], wrote:
> 
> Daniel Herrington writes...
> 
> > I'm looking at downloading and installing Debian for the first time. 
> > Does it really take 8 CDs?!!!
> 
> No, the first cd is the install cd, the rest are just packages. If you have 
> reasonable network access you probably just want to install the base packages 
> from the first CD and then grab the rest from the net via apt. But you only 
> need the first cd and really you only need a couple floppies if you want to do 
> a net install.
> 
> -- 
> Matt Taggart
> matt at lackof.org
> 
> 
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