Re: Overwhelmed newbie

["Josh Battles" <josh.lists@omg-stfu.com>]

Fritz Brown said:
> Well, I don't have any idea what's what when I begin the install.  I have 7
> CDs (booting from the CD), and get through the partitioning OK, but am
> utterly without a clue when it starts asking about packages with cryptic
> names and cryptic descriptions on the second bootup (or is it the third?).

I noticed in your original post that you're installing 3.0 (woody), why not
try installing 3.1 (sarge)?  The sarge installer is *much* nicer than the
woody installer.  This will also give you the options list for
workstation/server/etc that was mentioned in another post.

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