[NBLUG/talk] Debian
Steve
srj at adnd.com
Wed Jun 25 17:49:00 PDT 2003
Wow, thats a small ISO image. Is woody the current release of Debian?
-Steve
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:56:27PM -0700, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> 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
> --
> Jeremy Turner <jeremy at linuxwebguy.com>
> The LinuxWebGuy
>
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