Re: unique install question?
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 18:11 -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> [snip]
> Here is the situation.
> I have a complete set of squeeze images in DVD, I do mean complete.
> I have no network connection in the computer I am installing debian on, so
> wish to install all of these images, so as not to need to update any
> packages.
You hardly will need the packages from all DVDs, I suspect that there's
too much software you don't need. Don't install all images ;).
> Better more debian than I might need, than not enough.
Wrong! You want 1000 daemons running, doing resource hungry operations
that will slow down performance, even if they should be completely
useless for you?
> [snip]
> I was told that there would be a way to start the install with wheezy from
> cd, but finish from the desired squeeze images
At least a newbie shouldn't try to install "stable" by starting to
install "testing" first.
> [snip]
Get the first install CD for Debian stable, don't use the first CD for testing.
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.5/i386/iso-cd/
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.5/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.5-amd64-CD-1.iso
0,02€,
Ralf
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