On Friday 24 December 2004 14:43, Sajid ali Baig wrote:
hi, Which flavour of debian is easy to install.
Depends on what you want to use it for. But sarge from PCQ dvd was very easy for desktop use. Similarly knoppix (single live cd. (the latest version is two live cds) , woody (rock stable) and other debian based distros. Although sarge is working very well for me, it is not advisable for newbies.
How many CDs are essential.
Depends on use again, but the first three are enough for the vast majority. The others cds 7 for woody and 10 for sarge (afaik) have stuff like development libraries and electronic, chemical and other engineering stuff.
are the CDs at http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/torrents/ good enough(easy to install.
All debian distros are the same. But check the mirror update policy. some of them might be a few weeks out of sync.
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 07:13:18PM +0500, sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
On Friday 24 December 2004 14:43, Sajid ali Baig wrote:
hi, Which flavour of debian is easy to install.
Personally, I like unstable (sarge? sid? I don't know).
Similarly knoppix (single live cd. (the latest version is two live cds) , woody (rock stable) and other debian based distros.
Knoppix is more of a live-CD thing, but I hear you can get it to install itself on the hard drive. After that, tweak the /etc/sources.list and you've got whichever debian you want.
How many CDs are essential.
Depends on use again, but the first three are enough for the vast majority. The others cds 7 for woody and 10 for sarge (afaik) have stuff like development libraries and electronic, chemical and other engineering stuff.
Once you have a basic system installed from disc 1, you can tweak sources.list and get whatever you want off the net.
I think the other discs contain special boot images in case disc1 doesn't work for you.
are the CDs at http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/torrents/ good enough(easy to install.
All debian distros are the same. But check the mirror update policy. some of them might be a few weeks out of sync.
I don't think all are the same. You have stable, unstable, and testing at the least. That said, 3.0rc3 is fairly recent and as always tweaking the sources.list gets you exactly what you want.
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