Hi all,
I have installed mandrake for a period of time. After i visted so many linux website, i find debian's give me a very good image that they their website, document and manual is well prepared in detail. According to many people opinions, their distribution is very stable. So I planed to move into Debain 3.1. and download its CDs from offical site by jigdo. But there are 14 CDs which made me don't know how many of them i should download because i can't find any information about how the applications are spread between the CDs.
Hope anyone can help.
Only the 1st one. Nothing els
Only the 1st one. Nothing else.
First two CDs are important o
First two CDs are important or most popular packages, the third is optional, the others is less popular. If you really want to know which packages is contain which CDs. Let's have a look at particular .jigo file will "zless" command.
Just to install a plain Debia
Just to install a plain Debian 3.1 and then apt-get later on.
After you install the debian 3.1 then as root try command
# apt-cache search | more
you can get a list of packages available
you can try
# apt-get install less
to install the "less" paging tool
just to do experiment. Debian rocks.
Except your internet access i
Except your internet access is very slow, you can download the netinstall iso (109MB) OR business care ISO (31MB) in ftp://ftp.hk.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/
much faster and thye will help you to install the software you need form network