Re: unique install question?

[Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net>]

Hi,
first, the test image of wheezy came with software speech installed, which 
is why I wanted it.
second, it took me a year to find anyone who could create these images 
for me. 
and I cannot burn the stable squeeze cd myself, no means as my main 
computer only has dialup.
Agreed, had I not been told that Debian would not care which  method I 
used, it might have been smarter to ignore having speech for the install, 
but I have what I have.

third on your question, I would rather have all of debian than not enough, 
even if useless to me.  I will have no  way after the fact to upgrade 
anything...and am not a speed junkie smiles.

As expressed, the situation is not something I can shift without a grand 
loss of time, I am serious about how long it took me to find a person able 
to burn what I have.
thanks,
Karen

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> 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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