On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 10:59, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > Unfortunately the proxy and firewalls here do not allow me to use jigdo Jigdo should be regular HTTP so that should work ? > or bit-torrent, and so the only way for me to download the ISOs are by > downloading them directly. Over a day or two I managed to download the > first of the ISO files. After downloading, I figure that maybe I should > have downloaded the non-US version -- frankly, I hadn't noticed that Nope... it'll work with the regular (us) version just as well ;) > there's a non-US version too present -- and so am now thinking: is there > any way I can "convert" the US version ISO file into a non-US version? Rsync... but as stated, that probably won't work for you > Maybe using jigdo or something (which I can do from home over my > dial-up). Or I can install with the US version and then fetch the non-US > packages or something? Just download the required packages after installation (regular upgrade) > ps. One more question: how come there are SEVEN ISOs for download? Just > to get things up and running (and the with the typical end-user > applications) how many of these do I have to download? Debian is BIG, but you only need a netinst cd-image to get to a point where you can run debian and install the rest via the internet (http/ftp/nfs) With CD1 and 2 you should have more then enough to get a working system -- Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT Maniac.nl Unix-God.Net|Org MarkJanssen.org|nl SyConOS.com|nl
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