On Sunday 20 June 2010 19:53:42 Disc Magnet wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> wrote: > > The business card iso does not have much, it sets up a network > > connection and downloads everything..so you need a net connection. The > > netinstall iso has the base system on it so you have a minimal install > > to work with, none of the 'standard' set of packages no X. So CD1 would > > be useful if you don't have a net connection. > > Thanks for your explanations, Greg and Michael. It was lucid and very > helpful. I have one more question, Greg. > > Why do you say that CD1 would be useful if we don't have a net > connection. It seems that the netinstall can install a base system as > well. I hope netinstall would install a system with the basic tools > like ls, aptitude, vim, etc. If so, netinstall is good enough to setup > a minimal install and download the remaining packages from internet > whenever I need using aptitude. Am I right? The netinstall CD *does* contain the base system and aptitude but it does not contain vim, etc. so you need to connect to the Internet to install useful packages after installing the base system. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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