Hi Wilson! =) On 6/11/06, Wilson John D. Barbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi everybody. I was wondering if anybody can suggest an easy way to install the latest debian in a laptop? I have gone over the the debian site and downloading 17 ISO images is quite a waste of bandwidth for me. I have
Wow, that's a lot indeed! You could have just gotten the first 2 or 3 CDs though, and grab the rest via the network... then again, its not bad to have the whole collection around, just in case ;-)
ubuntu installed in this system and wanted to test debian for about a month
There isn't much difference between Ubuntu and Debian; currently Ubuntu provides a `LAMP' install option, but that's just really a customization of the base install; you can pretty much replicate the same setup with Debian's tasksel/dselect/aptitude...
to learn about it. Is it possible in debian to have a "server" type install like in ubuntu and later download and install the apps that I want to use?
Actually, many use of Debian is for server installations; the typical Debian sysadmin just keeps a `netinst' CD or USB key around, plus another containing their setup, just in case a server needs bootstrapping. Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
