[Please wrap your lines! It makes it much easier to read, and thus more likely that you'll get a response. Anywhere between 70 and 80 is acceptable; 72 seems to be a nice value.] On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:58:50AM +1000, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > Hi all. I am new to linux and debian and have a few questions on > installing the distro. > > i have the 7 woody (stable) installation cds along Ok. > with an eighth cd > which seems to have some of the non-free stuff. It's not neccessarily permitted to actually make or distribute CDs of non-Free, so Debian does not do so. Are you sure you don't mean non-US? > i would like to get > sid (unstable) or at least testing working on my box, but don't have > the cds for that. Ok. Are you sure you want to do this, considering how new you are to Debian? Debian Testing and Unstable are called that for a reason. > Is it true that you can only actually Install the > stable distro? Generally, yes. Only woody has installable floppy and CD images made [1]. Of course, since it's so damn easy to move from stable to testing or unstable, and given that you need to install once per machine (barring hardware issues), it's not considered a serious issue. > btw my woody cds are the r0 version not the r1... > does this make a difference? It means you're slightly out of date with security fixes. > The issue is that the box i will be installing on has a slow internet > connection, while i have a fast one via a windows box at work. So > what i want to do is download everything i need via the windows box to > hard disk, maybe burn it onto cds (perhaps using isos from the net) or > even just downloading all the files i need, and then to copy this > stuff over to a partition on the box i want to install deb on (or burn > the cds to use them instead). There are full sets of sid CDs out there, but I've never used them and I don't know the URL. Another option is to use 'apt-zip' and to read the 'Offline Apt Howto', which explains how to solve this very situation. > Can anyone also tell me if the apps in sage or sid are as recent as > the stuff redhat etc are packaging in their distro, rh9 or mandrake > etc. for example? No idea. Sid has KDE3.1.1, GNOME2.2, X4.2, OO.org 1.0, etc, etc...you can check the version for anything you want at http://packages.debian.org/ [1] Yes, I know this isn't true. If you want to try to install sarge directly, you're welcome to try the experimental new debian-installer system; I believe install disks are linked from http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Saddam Hussein Crypto AG Cohiba revolution Ft. Meade
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