On Wed 17 Feb 2016 at 14:07:30 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 2/17/2016 7:37 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > >On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:51:58 +0800 Gener Badenas > ><gener.ong.bade...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Ghaith Etaiwi > >><ghaiththebes...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>>Hello, I'm starting in linux I used Ubuntu and didn't like it and I > >>>have read that many people that used Debian had a better > >>>experience, I have a MacBook Pro 4GB ram/ 500HDD/Intel HD 3000/ i5 > >>>2nd generation, can it run Debian?. Also, I want to know what > >>>version of Debian to download, I saw something about DVD1, DVD2... > >>> > >> > >>You can always choose net install so it is minimal. Then you can > >>download everything else. I assume internet is fast in your location. > > > >Depends on what you consider to be 'fast'. Is 120K/s fast?
This laptop has 2255 packages on it, the total download size of which is about 3GB. At a throughput of 120KB/s, that'd be about 7 hours. The base system is nothing like that size of course, and you can build up the system gradually. Just make sure to keep/backup the .deb files. > Compared to what? > I recall loading the OS from paper tape. We *DID* have a high speed > reader after all <GRIN> That'd be about 1KB/s with 9-track perhaps. > More seriously use https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ to select an > appropriate vendor. I originally did that because all the > connectivity I had was a 56k dial-up line. That's bits/s of course, and not even a throughput either. Cheers, David.