instructions contradictory?
Below is a quote copied directly from the Debian web page FAQ for
downloading CD images located at http://cdimage.debian.org/faq.html:
>-?- But what CDs do I need?
>-!- If you want to install Debian, you should get only the "Binary-1"
>CD for your platform (e.g. "i386" for IBM-compatible PCs). The other
>"Binary-X" CDs (X>=2) contain very specialistic software that is used only
>by very few people -- these are not needed at all for fresh installs.
>
So that's what I did. I downloaded just that one CD.
I have now read in 3 different places that Debian Linux will not install
properly, or at all, without the 2nd CD.
Could you please tell me which one is the case? Do you have to have both
CD's or not? Because I have only the one, AS INSTRUCTED, and I can't get
anything to install after the base system.
AND, if the web page is correct, that I only need the one CD, then why do
other Debian pages tell me that installing from a single CD is passe',
and I should install from the multiple set, which you tell me I DON'T
NEED!
This just makes no sense at all, and I would be very grateful if you
would explain it.
Thanks,
David Kachel
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