Re: debian system download
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Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:22:27PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
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>> Zgonzalesl@aol.com writes this glint of hope:
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>> > my father used to work with nasa in huntsville alabama.i'm in
>> > california but i want to use debian,i have the floppy's required to
>> > download but i'm not really computer literate.can you please help
>> > me?
>>
>> You really don't want to start with floppies unless you absolutely
>> have to. You might try getting a Debian CD from a friend or local
>> Linux User's Group. If you have a high speed connection and a CD
>> burner, I strongly suggest the new debian-installer CD, which does
>> most of the heavy lifting for you.
>>
>> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
>>
>
> If you get CD's, as of the stable release there are seven of them. Anyone
> know how many for sarge? In any case, the only one you *really* need
> is the first CD, because it contains enought to get started, including
> the essentials and the post popular software. The software is sorted
> into CDs roughly by popularity.
If you have a cheap connection to the internet, there's really no
reason to even go as far as downloading more than the 110MB
net-install image...
> And if you can't find anyone else to give you or lend you a CD, try
> the list of CD vendors (which I believe is on the debian site), or
Yes, it is! http://debian.org/CD/vendors/
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