[geeks] Debian 4.0 Bittorrent for DVD

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Mon Apr 9 07:00:45 CDT 2007


>From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
>Date: 2007/04/09 Mon AM 02:39:41 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Debian 4.0 Bittorrent for DVD

>On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:32:21PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> Granted, one may be source files, but really, that's over 13 Gigs of
>> "stuff" - has it gotten that bad?
>> They listed 26 install CDs, IIRC... (I did a double take to make sure
>> they weren't talking about floppies ;^)
>> WTF?
>
>http://www.ubuntu.com  8-)

That can't be any good - it is only one CD ;^)

Seriously though, I just wanted to play with "real" Debian, not a derivative, what amazed me was there was no direction like "just download the first DVD for an install, and the software on the others can be downloaded if needed/desired"...

Lionel



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