[PLUG] Debian virgin preparing to take the plunge

Robert Citek robert.citek at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 05:12:44 UTC 2007


Russell Senior wrote:
>>>>>> "drew" == drew wymore <drew.wymore at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> drew> Hi All- I've decided I want to take debian [etch] for a ride and
> drew> see what it has to offer but I need a little advice from some of
> drew> the more sagely users of debian. I see 3 DVD ISO's available for
> drew> the i386 arch [I'm actually using a AMD64 proc] but the arch
> drew> doesn't matter much to me, i386 will still boot just fine ... ps
> drew> and less just won't be optimized to my hardware ;-) ..  anyways
> drew> I'm sure I'll need DVD 1 but what about DVD's 2 and 3? I have
> drew> downloaded 1 and 2 already but I want to know if 3 is necessary
> drew> or if I can live without it? I didn't see a doc pointing out
> drew> whats contained on each DVD so pointers to where that
> drew> documentation lives is definitely appreciated.
> 
> The usual advice is skip the big install images thing, just get the
> small net-install CD image and install the packages you want or need
> as you need them.  Then never "install" again, just update in place.

That's exactly how I installed Etch.  For complete notes:

http://wiki.bworks.org/installing_debian_etch

Regards,
- Robert




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