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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
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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