Re: Interesting thought
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:41:13AM -0500, Robert@comcast.net wrote:
> Do I want to download all of these files? How would I know, being a
> first time user, what I "want" to download?
Um - you read the FAQ? ;-)
> What are these "Woody" files, what do they have to do with the Debian program?
Each major Debian release has a codename. Furthermore, there are three
releases which you'll see mentioned on the web pages: "stable" (codename
"woody"), "testing" (aka "sarge") and "unstable" (aka "sid").
> I downloaded the Jigdo lite program and ran it. At the prompt I typed in
> the following (as per the example when you run the Jigdo Lite):
> http://server/cd-{1_nonus,2,3}.jigdo and http://debian.org/cd/jigdo-cd/
Ah well, that's just an example. To download the first Debian CD, you need
to enter the following:
http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r2/jigdo/i386/woody-i386-1.jigdo
You can find this URL by going to <http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/>,
clicking on "USA mirror" in the "Official images" section and then going to
"i386". i386 is our abbreviation of "Intel/AMD compatible computer". Each
.jigdo file corresponds to one CD image.
> Is this method just too advanced for people new to Linux?
That's a difficult question, especially for me as the author of
jigdo-lite...
I suspect that Debian in general may not be for you - while we're busy
working on making everything more user-friendly, other distros generally
feature smoother installation etc. If you just want to see what Linux
looks like, without any installation etc at all, I recommend you take a
look at Knoppix, which is based on Debian - see
<http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html>
Cheers,
Richard
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