Re: which DVD to download?
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:34:22 +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 02 Feb 2011 at 22:36:37 +0000, Brian wrote:
>
>> On Wed 02 Feb 2011 at 19:44:01 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>>
>> > Why LiveCD for installing? Any advantage over the standard install
>> > first CD image?
>>
>> Without knowing what is on the first CD
Here is the list of the packages:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/list-cd/debian-testing-i386-CD-1.list.gz
>> my answer is bound to be incomplete (any pointers to its contents?),
In what way "incomplete"? I don't think so :-)
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Which of the numerous images should I download? Do I need all of them?
http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/index.en.html#which-cd
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>> but there are Live CDs specific to installing Gnome, KDE, XFCE and
>> LXDE. In the context of the original question, if you require your
>> basic install to have a desktop environment a Debian Live CD seems
>> more desirable in terms of time, effort and bandwidth.
Squeeze LiveCD adds additional problem: it does not fit inside a CD but a
DVD or USB media as is ~1 GiB of size, at least the GNOME/KDE flavour.
> And if I had looked closer at the directory listing I'd have seen CD-1
> is in KDE and XFCE+LXDE flavours!
All of them should be also available in the first DVD ;-)
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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