Noted, I apologize for the confusion. On Fri 25 Oct 2013 04:13:47 AM PDT, Philip Hands wrote: > Frank leTanque <[email protected]> writes: > >> Hey Davy, why not just download it here? >> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop > > Given that he's asking for a Debian CD, why are you pointing him at > Ubuntu? > > Davy, > > If you go to the main web page for Debian: > > http://www.debian.org/ > > you'll notice a green box in the top-right corner of the page: > > +---------------------------------------+ > | | Download Debian 7.2 | > | V (32/64-bit PC Network installer) | > +---------------------------------------+ > > if you click that, it'll allow you to download a small image that is > enough to boot the installer on a machine. The machine you're > installing needs to be able to get to the Internet, as the installer > then needs to download all the software you want to have installed > after that. > > The image works for both 32 and 64 bit Intel/AMD machines, and will > boot if you burn it onto a blank CD or DVD, or you can copy it onto a > USB stick and it will make it bootable (that's by overwriting the > contents of the stick, rather than by copying the file into a > directory on the stick). > > The installation manual goes into the details: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual > > You could instead try a live CD, although I'm not sure which to > recommend. Grml is good for sysadmin work, and is pure Debian. > Knoppix is great if you want a fully configured desktop, but I think > includes some bits that are not in Debian. There is a debian-live CD, > but the one that fits on a CD is a bit useless, so you probably need > the larger image, with gnome on it, which is fin if you wanted to burn > it on DVD boot a VM. > > Hope that helps. > > Cheers, Phil.
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