Debian Question

[David Mangani]

Stan Hiller wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 19:31, David Mangani wrote:
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>>Thanks for the quick reply Stan, I appreciate it. I'm kind of in 
>>right now as I have already downloaded 4 full iso's. LOL Oh well, I 
>>suppose I could go get the minimum install cd and go that route.
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>I'd definitely do the single install cd route. Downloading 14 debian
>cd's is kind of a waste, for the following reasons:
>1) you're not going to come close to using a significant fraction of the
>packages on the cd's
>2) a large portion of the packages you *do*install will already be out
>of date and need to be upgraded to newer versions anyway
>3) swapping cds sucks when you could instead just let 'apt-get' do all
>the work *and* get the latest versions in the process
>4) cd-r's might be dirt cheap, but why waste 14 of them all at once?
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>Your call, of course, but I heartily reccomend just doing the minimal
>install. You'll be up and running way sooner and with less waste.
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>Regards,
>Stan
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Makes perfect sense Stan. I'm going to get the install cd now.

Thanks again
Dave