Re: Debian instalation
On Saturday 06 December 2003 13:18, Mihai P. B. Stiucan wrote:
> There would be an ideea to install it from scratch , but I'm not so
> experimented to keep track of the files by myself.
>
> I will be very happy if I will succed to do a debian based system with
> XFree86 4.0.1 at least, and KDE 3.1 using Grub boot loader.
Hi,
welcome to Debian. A great choice ;-)
The 128KBits line is a burden, but that should only be a problem if you are
tracking unstable/sid. From yesterday to today I got 140 MB download (that is
one day), but this won't happen if you go for testing/sarge. Between two
releases of a package is a minimum gap of 10 days (afaik).
What kind of system are you setting up? A webserver you want to put on the
net and never want to spare a second thought on it? Woody is probably good
for you here.
If you want more current software and are willing to take a little risk go for
testing/sarge. Go to /etc/apt/sources.list and replace all "stable" with
"sarge". Enter "apt-get update" to update your package database and "apt-get
dist-upgrade" for upgrading the whole installation. This will also add new
packages which you haven't had before, but are now available in the "stock"
sarge distro. You likely will have to download more than 100 MB. The good
thing is that you can interrupt the download process at any time and resume
just there when doing an dist-upgrade again.
Only problem with sarge is, that for some package with loads of dependencies
it takes a looooong time to trach it. KDE 3.1 has taken ages.
Cheers,
Mariano
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