On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:29:55PM +0200, Helmut Sennewald wrote: > Hello, > > Is it necessary to download all 3 DVD-ISO-images just to install this > version? > I am wondered a little bit because other distributions have only one > ISO-DVD. > Are on DVD-2 and DVD-3 only sources? > If you have fast net access and are happy to do a net install - no.
For i386 and AMD64, figures are very approximately as below. The business card size CD is approximately a 20 - 30 MB download and provides enough to bootstrap an installer and begin a Debian installation entirely from the network. The netinst CD is approximately 100 - 120 MB - it includes enough to install the base system completely. [For completeness: There is also a pxe boot version if you have a fast local network and your network card is net boot capable] These are almost exactly the same installer as is found on CD #1 or DVD #1 of the full set (or the KDE and XFCE variants of the CD #1 which install those desktop environments but are in other ways identical). Debian is a large distribution - three or four DVD's of binaries, three of source, depending on architecture. There are over 18000 packages. Most people won't install anything like that number - you don't necessarily need to install two mail transfer programs at the same time - but you have the choice of lots of alternatives if you wish to use them. The packages are arranged in approximate order of popularity and use on each CD / DVD. Less used packages (e.g. specialist genetics programs) might be on DVD #3, for example. If you have network access, it is possible that all you will need is some flavour of minimal network install CD / CD #1 or DVD #1 from the full set. If you don't have network access, then CD or DVD full sets may be necessary. 3 DVDs for binaries / 21 CDs and the same for source - for many, this will never be necessary. This ought to be an FAQ :) Hope this helps, Andy > Best regards, > Helmut > > "Greg Folkert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >From the Debian Announce List. > > > > There you go. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ > > Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > April 8th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released > > > > The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian > > GNU/Linux version 4.0, codenamed "etch", after 21 months of constant > > development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports > > a total of eleven processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME > > and Xfce desktop environments. 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