Ooops, just found out I need to download 21 CD's for installing
Debian? How can that be, that cannot be the OS allone ( I hope ).
Can't I find a plain Debian somewhere and only install what I need?

Thanks

Edmund


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>
> Ooops, just found out I need to download 21 CD's
> for installing Debian? How can that be, that cannot
> be the OS allone ( I hope ).
>
>  Can't I find a plain Debian somewhere and only install
> what I need?

Edmund ....

The most convenient method to get Debian is probably
to use the  Minimal CD  for a "network install" ....

http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/netinst

Using this method you download an  .iso  file,
which is in the neighborhood of ~130 MB and
burn it as a bootable image ....

This will install a minimal Debian system
and then whatever else you want/need gets
installed from the internet using the Debian
package manager ....

The 21 CDs have  everything  that Debian
has to offer which is over 18,000 packages
and also includes the source code for all
of it ....


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Edmund writes:
> Ooops, just found out I need to download 21 CD's for installing Debian?

The packages are on the CDs in order of popularity with everything
essential on the first one.

> Can't I find a plain Debian somewhere and only install what I need?

Download the first CD and install from it.  You will then be able to
install anything else you want over the Net.  Debian includes tens of
thousands of packages, most of which are of no interest to you (there is
also source for all of the packages, which you probably don't want).

Go to www.debian.org and read the installation instructions.
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On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:59:30 +0200
Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Ooops, just found out I need to download 21 CD's for installing
> Debian? How can that be, that cannot be the OS allone ( I hope ).
> Can't I find a plain Debian somewhere and only install what I need?

You just need the first disc to get a running system with a reasonable
amount of applications. The other discs are for additional stuff that
you might need. Combined with a Net connection, the first disc is ample
enough.

If you want even smaller, just get the Network Install CD (about 160MB
or so), which will install a bare minimum system, allowing you to grab
other stuff from the Net to get things like X and a desktop environment.
Heck, if you want, you could even install using two floppy discs.


Graham

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I demand that John Hasler may or may not have written...

> Edmund writes: 
[vbcol=seagreen]
> The packages are on the CDs in order of popularity with everything
> essential on the first one.
 
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Download the first CD and install from it. [...]

Just in case anybody's missed it: there are three "first CDs" to choose from
- default (Gnome), KDE and Xfce.

Then there's the businesscard image, the netinstall image and (if you look i
n
"multi-arch", rather than "i386" or whatever) a couple of multi-arch
netinstall images...

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On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:18:53 -0500, John Hasler wrote:

> Edmund writes: 
>
> The packages are on the CDs in order of popularity with everything
> essential on the first one.
> 
>
> Download the first CD and install from it.  You will then be able to
> install anything else you want over the Net.  Debian includes tens of
> thousands of packages, most of which are of no interest to you (there is
> also source for all of the packages, which you probably don't want).
>
> Go to www.debian.org and read the installation instructions.

Done that and here I am!
Thanks

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