On Friday 11 July 2003 17:21, Akshay Tagalpallewar wrote:

GLUG Meeting on 13th July, 4pm at KReSIT, IIT Campus, Powai.

which debian cd's r required for the installation

basic installation 1st cd Kde and gnome 2nd and 3rd. all sorts of stuff 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th. U can boot from all seven however only one will give you install options.

Rgds jtdsouza@softhome.net

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:51:30 +0100 (BST) Akshay Tagalpallewar akshay4linux@yahoo.co.in wrote:

| i want to know which of the 7 cd's available for debian i'l need for a | basic system install [snip] 1. the first cdrom contains some install images such as the default kernel 2.2, bf24 select this if you want to install debian gnu linux on a reiserfs/ext3/ext2 partition and the rescue images.

2. with the first cdrom you can install a basic system with xwindows, parts of gnome and kde, and some other useful applications.

3. what i suggest is that you use only the first cdrom and add the indian mirror as your apt-source.

| and can any one tell what the hell 5 boot cd's of debian r for, since | the info. found on the debian site is quite inadequate. [snip] hardware specific images etc.