Re: Newcomers to Debian downloading/ordering full CD-set

[Neil Dugan <debian@butterflystitches.com.au>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:38:58 -0500
> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
>
>
> > Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >
> > > A quick peak at debian-cd shows that there are discussions about
> > > having a Desktop install with as few CDs as possible. This is the
> > > development part.
> >
> > No it's not, all releases since at least sarge have had a functional
> > desktop with only CD 1.
> >
> > --
> > see shy jo
>
>
> Without *any* downloads? The whole 'Desktop' task? Great! Now all we need is more emphasis on that in the introductory pages. What do you think about the suggestion from David Kirchner?
>
> [quote]
>
> > I think it'd probably be best to have any CDs necessary for an install
> > be called "install-N.iso", while the rest could be "extra-N.iso".
>
> [/quote]
>
> Andrei

I think it would be a good idea to order the different install methods 
by how many iso files needed (i.e. net install first).

Another thing that might be handy is to have a web form with the major 
packages on it that you can tick off to get a list of iso files needed 
to install those packages.

Regards Neil.