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Re: install troubles



On Friday 29 July 2005 20:43, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 07:40:02PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >Greetings;
>> >
>> >I've just today, tried to install the 14 disk set
>>
>> The first CD has the bulk of what you want. The next few CDs have
>> other software, in order of decreasing popularity. The last half
>> or so of the CDs are source code, which you probably don't want or
>> need unless you're going to be (re-)compiling the Debian packages
>> for some reason.
>
>That is not entirely correct.  All 14 CDs of the binary distribution
>contain just that, binaries.  The sources are on an additional 15
> CDs:
>
>http://debian.mirrors.tds.net/pub/linux/ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1
>_r0/source/iso-cd/
>
In other words, the whole distro is now 29 cd's?  Good grief...

>-Roberto

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