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Re: question about installing everything



Pat wrote:

>  I know this may sound a little ridiculous to some, but I have been
> using Debian for several years now and was thinking about installing
> everything on a computer to experiment on etc.
>  Does anyone have any idea about how much hard-drive space this would
>  require? Is this even possible, given the number of confilcting programs?
>  Can you select install everything within dselect?

Some packages are architecture specific, some packages conflict with one
another. In general it is not possible to install all the packages on a
single machine.

hth
raju
-- 
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/



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