[NBLUG/talk] Debian

Jeremy Turner jeremy at linuxwebguy.com
Wed Jun 25 15:55:01 PDT 2003


Hello all!  I'm just coming back to the area from the midwest from
college and I found this lug.  Debian's my cup of tea.

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 15:28, Steve wrote:
> I'm thinking about moving to debian, anyone know a fast mirror site to
> download the ISOs?  Also any gotchas I need to watch out for
> when doing this.. I figured I would just nuke my RH8.0 partition and start
> over.. There really isnt any data worth saving on this box anyways =)

The best part about debian is that you only install what you need.  My
favorite installation method is to grab the debian mini-cd
http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/debian-cd/ and burn it onto a 3" cd.  It will
work on a regular-sized cd as well.  Once you get everything all fixed
up, add a couple of apt mirrors and grab everything else off of them!

The transition from the RedHat/Mandrake/SuSE way of thinking (download
the ISO, then install) to debian's download what you need, then grab
them one by one, is a bit different.  Additionally, if you have a slower
dsl line, you can set a cron job to do all your downloading late in the
night.

HTH,

Jeremy
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Jeremy Turner <jeremy at linuxwebguy.com>
The LinuxWebGuy




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