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Debian 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 someone 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 you only need the one CD, then why
do the same Debian people tell you that installing from a single CD is
passe', and you should install from the multiple set.

This just makes no sense at all, and I would be very grateful to anyone
who can explain it.

Thanks,

David Kachel


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