On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Antonio Sun via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Remember Lennart's comment? > > Debian is not 3 DVD images. It is 14 DVD images or 3 BD images. >> About 60GB total for the images. > > > The installation disk *might *be 3 DVD images, then you'll face the > massive update requirement/problem I pointed out earlier, which you need > all the above 14 DVDs to overcome. > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Clifford Ilkay via talk wrote: > >> >> Solution: install at friend's house. Updates are still going to be an >> issue, though most updates tend not to be more than a few megs. >> > > Yep, agree, that's the *only *viable/practical choice. > > Everything else will give you more trouble than you'd ask for, and no one > can help, because no one does in those ways. > > Sorry - - - one DVD has enough so that I could install everything I wanted. That was for Debian 9 (present stable). So downloading one DVD of material IS a viable AND and practical choice if necessity demands it. Dee
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