Re: Hello there! Davy Jones here from the Sunny Okanagan, Kelowna BC, Canada. Could I possibly...
Noted, I apologize for the confusion.
On Fri 25 Oct 2013 04:13:47 AM PDT, Philip Hands wrote:
> Frank leTanque <get@tanque.pro> writes:
>
>> Hey Davy, why not just download it here?
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
>
> Given that he's asking for a Debian CD, why are you pointing him at
> Ubuntu?
>
> Davy,
>
> If you go to the main web page for Debian:
>
> http://www.debian.org/
>
> you'll notice a green box in the top-right corner of the page:
>
> +---------------------------------------+
> | | Download Debian 7.2 |
> | V (32/64-bit PC Network installer) |
> +---------------------------------------+
>
> if you click that, it'll allow you to download a small image that is
> enough to boot the installer on a machine. The machine you're
> installing needs to be able to get to the Internet, as the installer
> then needs to download all the software you want to have installed
> after that.
>
> The image works for both 32 and 64 bit Intel/AMD machines, and will
> boot if you burn it onto a blank CD or DVD, or you can copy it onto a
> USB stick and it will make it bootable (that's by overwriting the
> contents of the stick, rather than by copying the file into a
> directory on the stick).
>
> The installation manual goes into the details:
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual
>
> You could instead try a live CD, although I'm not sure which to
> recommend. Grml is good for sysadmin work, and is pure Debian.
> Knoppix is great if you want a fully configured desktop, but I think
> includes some bits that are not in Debian. There is a debian-live CD,
> but the one that fits on a CD is a bit useless, so you probably need
> the larger image, with gnome on it, which is fin if you wanted to burn
> it on DVD boot a VM.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers, Phil.
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