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Old 01-19-2008, 08:39 AM
Darren Salt
 
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Default Re: Debian Size 21 CD's ????

I demand that John Hasler may or may not have written...

> Edmund writes:
>> Ooops, just found out I need to download 21 CD's for installing Debian?


> The packages are on the CDs in order of popularity with everything
> essential on the first one.


>> Can't I find a plain Debian somewhere and only install what I need?


> Download the first CD and install from it. [...]


Just in case anybody's missed it: there are three "first CDs" to choose from
- default (Gnome), KDE and Xfce.

Then there's the businesscard image, the netinstall image and (if you look in
"multi-arch", rather than "i386" or whatever) a couple of multi-arch
netinstall images...

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