Re: New install and newbie questions
Am 2006-02-25 17:16:25, schrieb Curt Howland:
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> I've been reading your notes to debian-users with interest, and I'd
> like to put in .02 FRNs or so.
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> I realize that people have suggested lots of "package management"
> tools, I would like to suggest "dselect". The granularity of control
> is greater, in my experience, and it is easier to examine individual
> packages. If you do, then don't select the first option "Access"
> because that's if you want to overwrite /etc/apt/sources.list .
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> There is a ~30MB boot-CD image which is all you actually need. Your
> downloading all 14 CDs is remarkable to me now, but in fact I did
> exactly the same thing in 1995 when I made 16 3.5" floppies for my
> first install of Debian.
16 Floppies?
Bo 1 rescue/boot 1 driver 4 base
Hamm 1 rescue/boot 1 driver 5 base
Slink 1 rescue/boot 1 driver 7 base
Potato 1 rescue/boot 1 root 2 driver 16 base
Woody 1 rescue/boot 1 root 4 driver 20 base
Greetings
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
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