Re: Installing Debian question.
Hi Andreas,
Thanks for your advice.
What I need is the basic Debian-Linux system with GNOME environment. If
I need additional software not available on those 2CDs, I will use
'apt-get install' to get them from Debian website or their tarball from
their respective website.
Thanks and B.R.
Stephen
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:31, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> Stephen Liu (<satimis@icare.com.hk>) wrote:
>
> > I am going to install Debian with Disk-1 and Disk-7 on a 6G hard drive
> > for test purpose. They were burnt from following Official CD images
> > of the "stable" releases from Debian mirror sites;
> >
> > debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso
> > debian-30r1-i386-binary-7.iso
> >
> > I have not downloaded other ISO CD images. Can I install a stardard
> > Debian-Linux workstation only from these 2 CDs
>
> That depends strongly on what you call "standard", and on your internet
> connection. You can install the base system from CD 1, as well as a
> working X environment, even with KDE. However, you very probably will
> want to install packages that are on the second CD. Generally, you can
> say that the most important packages are on CD 1, while the least
> important ones are on CD 7. But you can also install from CD 1 and get
> the rest of the packages you need over the net by adding some Debian
> mirror to your sources.list.
>
> best regards
> Andreas Janssen
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