At Sat, 25 May 2002 19:21:54 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > Also I gather that all I need to download is disk 1 and then the rest can be > downloaded from the net,
assuming your laptop has a network card of some sort: unless you want to have a cd for some reason, you may as well just download a few floppy disk images. boot from them and you can suck the rest down over the network. you will probably only need 3-6 floppy disks (depending on the drivers you need for the install). to find out the various options available, have a flick through the woody installation instructions: http://www.au.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/install in particular the chapter on installation methods. this also explains the various floppy disk images available and where to get them: http://www.au.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html if you really want a CD, then check out the different options available at (and yes, you only need the first one (or two, or three..), it will download any packages you select that aren't on the CDs you have): http://www.au.debian.org/CD/ > can I tell it where to source this from, or is it easier to download > the CD's and burn them. yes, you can specify any debian mirror to download from (or files on local disk/cd). you can give multiple sources and it will search them in order, so your local mirror doesn't even have to be complete or fully up to date. its certainly less bandwidth to only download what you're going to use. so personally, i would never bother with a cd image unless i was doing disconnected installs. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
