Re: Some newbie questions
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 04:49, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:49:48AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> > Alexey Buistov wrote:
> > >Hello Debian fans!
> > >
> > >The sixth iso image of binary "woody" is being downloaded to my machine
> > >right now, but I'm still having plenty of questions concerning Debian
> > >installation and even pre-installation. Please point me to some doco or
> > >answer directly in mailing list:
> >
> > First, you probably only need the first CD. I have only rearely heard
> > of situations where anyone *requires* any of the other CDs. That is
> > usually because they have special or strange hardware that will not boot
> > the regular kernel on the first CD.
>
> People with dial-up may appreciate the other CDs. I currently don't have
> an internet connection at home, so I especially need them.
>
> Bijan
I'm on dial-up, and I have just the first two (Woody) CD's, and I've only
ever found *one* app I wanted that wasn't on one of those two - Kppp. (I
downloaded that separately).
In other words, CD's 1 and 2 probably contain almost everything an average
user (certainly a newbie user) is likely to want.
cr
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