On 8/28/07, Gauland, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aidan's got his new PC, and has decided to go with Debian. Being limited > to dial-up, the plan is to do a base install from disk, retrieve the > repository indices from the 'net, generate a download script for the > desired packages, and do the actual download off-site. > > Does this sound workable? > Yes.
> Which CD do we need for the base install? The Debian site has about 20 > images for the current release, as well as a "net install" disk. The > latter sounds promising, but does it require a network connection during > installation? Yes > Any advice would be appreciated! http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/index.html.en especially http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apa Note: "You only need the first CD of the set". i.e. This one http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r1-i386-CD-1.iso or from a mirror. Or has somebody got a CD they can lend/give him? It was released just a few days ago - 19-Aug-2007 -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
