[oferk@oren.co.il: debian]
Hi,
A user who didn't like the cdimage.d.o.
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To: "Baruch Even" <baruch@ev-en.org>
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Subject: debian
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:39:28 +0200
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Hi,
I tried looking in debian.org for the "testing" version to download- I
looked for over an hour before giving up- then I got smart, went to the
RedHat site, and within 1 minute and ~5 mouse clicks I got to the
explanation of what to download and to the download files themselves.
After that I understood I had to look for something called an iso cd image
file, but even then it took me another 5 minutes to find the files I wanted-
the "unofficial woody" release at
ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/woody/ . And I still
don't know how to get from the cdimage site http://cdimage.debian.org/ to
the official CD images files- I tried answering the questions on the page,
but that just led me to a page (http://cdimage.debian.org/ch1211.html)
telling me I had to download something called the Pseudo-Image Kit. I
**don't want to** (and even if I wanted to, I have no way to) install some
program on my workstation at work, I just want to download the cd image
files.
Sigh... i'm starting to understand why people say the installation of Debian
is difficult- if this is what I had to go through just to find the
installation files, what will I go through actually installing the OS?
Comments are welcome :-)
PS, the steps to find the iso files in the redhat site:
1. Type redhat.com in your browser URL bar and hit Enter.
(http://www.redhat.com/)
2. Click on the word "DOWNLOAD" on the upper right hand corner of the page.
(http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/)
3. Click on the "Red Hat Linux 7.2" link in the center of the page.
(http://www.redhat.com/download/rhlinux72.html)
4. Read the download instructions in the "How to download Red Hat Linux"
link. (http://www.redhat.com/download/howto_download.html)
5. From 3, Click on the "Download Now!" link.
(ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/)
6. Click on "iso". (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/)
7. Click on "i386". (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/)
and you're there. Now why can't the Debian site be this simple !?!?
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Offer Kaye
Analog Circuit Design Engineer
Oren Semiconductor
oferk@oren.co.il
Tel: +972-4-9095555 ext. 1-309
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