How many cd's to install debian..i only have 2

[ian4frost]

I just saw on this forum 14 cds went to distromania and comfirmed ......the person that installed linux for me isn't around any more .where to begin?
14 cd's do i have to use all

[flipjargendy]

Go here, i asked this a few days ago... and yes it is 14.. hard to believe aye?

My Thread:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/deb...stall-cds.html

[ian4frost]

ok so im downloading all 14 iso image to convert and burn .. do i need all 14 for it to run ...or 14 gives full capabilities.

[captain7616]

Hey,

You can get away with only downloading the 1st disk, providing you have broadband interent connection,
and setup you APT then only down load the packages you need,
what will also help is to have caching on your firewall which will help save your downloading from the net

I have ever only downloaded the 1st dick to the Debian installs and downloaded the necessary packages from the net using apt-get


Hope this helps taking the headache away from downloading all the iso's

[ian4frost]

ok bro but i am new as in i only know what i saw ...i getting ready to install my own debian....apt get i know is to get more software. but how will i know what is needed..i have a book and it only talk about two cds and i already have the 2,,,the next 12 downloading right now.....and i dont like installing over the net....

[captain7616]

Not arguing with about how many cd's there are, only offering you an easy alternative , bear in mind that their are new package updates almost on a daily basis, so in no time at all your cd's will be out of date and you will need to do package updates anyway, granted that if you have all the cd's you get the base packages from the cd and the rest from the net. I seriously doubt that you would use all the packages on your linux box.

When I mentioned installing across the net, its not like windows where you select run instead of save ,
when running an apt-get it downloads the package to you linux box and from there it is installed , if you need to re-install / setup the package their is a command called dpkg-reconfigure that does that,

If you look at a basic debian install, once installed and you setup APT and run an update the initial download is approx. 20 to 40 megs depending on what u gonna be installing on the box.

I have only ever downloaded the 1st disk and got the box up and running and used the net from there (ftp.is.co.za) which you can setup when configuring APT

[ian4frost]

Not arguing with about how many cd's there are, only offering you an easy alternative , bear in mind that their are new package updates almost on a daily basis, so in no time at all your cd's will be out of date and you will need to do package updates anyway, granted that if you have all the cd's you get the base packages from the cd and the rest from the net. I seriously doubt that you would use all the packages on your linux box.

When I mentioned installing across the net, its not like windows where you select run instead of save ,
when running an apt-get it downloads the package to you linux box and from there it is installed , if you need to re-install / setup the package their is a command called dpkg-reconfigure that does that,

If you look at a basic debian install, once installed and you setup APT and run an update the initial download is approx. 20 to 40 megs depending on what u gonna be installing on the box.

I have only ever downloaded the 1st disk and got the box up and running and used the net from there (ftp.is.co.za) which you can setup when configuring APT

ok so what you are saying is that once i get the box(assuming u mean pc)running from my 2 cds which i already have ...use apt get to download new packages and patches etc... once downloaded then install..do i have to know exactly what im looking for.

[captain7616]

Hey there,

Exactly right about using your two cd's , when u run an apt-get it downloads and automatically installs thereafter (you can however disable the autoinstall -- please check apt-get --help will give you the switches,

There are a host of debian packages that do similar things available on the net.
goto : http://www.debian.org where you can search for various packages and it will give u a detailed explanation , also visit http://www.aboutdebian.com which has an awesome overview and a couple walkthru's on the various server applications,

you can also use "apt-cache search <keyword of package>"
eg.
apt-cache search kernel (it will output all the packages to do with the kernel)

if you get stuck drop me a mail


regards

[iwanabeguru]

download the dvd images