On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:31:05PM +1300, cr wrote: > 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. I install a lot of software :) When installing a system I always use all 7 cds. It's not that I install insane amount of software as much as the fact that I install many different kinds of software. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> http://www.crasseux.com
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