On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:34:22 +0000, Brian wrote: > On Wed 02 Feb 2011 at 22:36:37 +0000, Brian wrote: > >> On Wed 02 Feb 2011 at 19:44:01 +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> >> > Why LiveCD for installing? Any advantage over the standard install >> > first CD image? >> >> Without knowing what is on the first CD
Here is the list of the packages: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/list-cd/debian-testing-i386-CD-1.list.gz >> my answer is bound to be incomplete (any pointers to its contents?), In what way "incomplete"? I don't think so :-) *** Which of the numerous images should I download? Do I need all of them? http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/index.en.html#which-cd *** >> but there are Live CDs specific to installing Gnome, KDE, XFCE and >> LXDE. In the context of the original question, if you require your >> basic install to have a desktop environment a Debian Live CD seems >> more desirable in terms of time, effort and bandwidth. Squeeze LiveCD adds additional problem: it does not fit inside a CD but a DVD or USB media as is ~1 GiB of size, at least the GNOME/KDE flavour. > And if I had looked closer at the directory listing I'd have seen CD-1 > is in KDE and XFCE+LXDE flavours! All of them should be also available in the first DVD ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.02.03.11.30...@gmail.com
