Re: install Debian
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:30:00 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 01:57:12PM -0500, S.D.Allen wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:23:16 +0530, Srinivasa Ramanujam in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
>> >
>> > i've downloaded four debian iso installers from debian http website, and
>> > wrote them in four dvd's. however, the installation got completed with the
>> > first dvd itself, and i couldn't install the softwares which are written in
>> > second and rest dvd's as debian says the dvd is empty. this is not true
>> > because i can check the contents of the dvd in some other computer, and the
>> > dvd player in the computer in which i am trying to install is working
>> > properly as i used it to install the debian in the first case. how can i
>> > install the remaining softwares which are offered in second, third and
>> > fourth dvd?
>>
>> One only needs the net install image and everything else can be installed
>> over the Internet. That is the way I do my installs.
>>
>
> Sure, but if you have the debs on local media, its a lot faster;
> especially if you're on dial-up.
Well, the OP does say "i've downloaded four debian iso installers from
debian http website". I don't imagine the OP did that over dial-up; but I
could be wrong assuming that. In any event I forgot about being able to
add the media to apt. 8D
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