On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 10:37:56AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I strongly recommend you to read > http://www.debian.org > http://www.debian.org/doc and links > http://www.debian.org/distrib/ > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual > http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst > > On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 06:10:06PM +0100, Kunal Shah wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > I recently downloaded Debian Potato Distribution in 3 > > cds. > > OOps, this is waiste of bandwidth. You must be ex-REDHAT variant user. > > You only need few foppies (I do it with 2) to install potato. > Download only package you use. If you upgrade to "testing" which is > very stable now, you will not use 99% of what you downloaded.
Most documents you mention advise to get a cd-set of Debian for a first time install. For someone new it's nice to know they can format their drives and start all over when something (anything) goes wrong. Apt and deselect are really great, but it does take some trial and error to find that out. Bob
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