Hi Andreas, Thanks for your advice.
What I need is the basic Debian-Linux system with GNOME environment. If I need additional software not available on those 2CDs, I will use 'apt-get install' to get them from Debian website or their tarball from their respective website. Thanks and B.R. Stephen On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:31, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Stephen Liu (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I am going to install Debian with Disk-1 and Disk-7 on a 6G hard drive > > for test purpose. They were burnt from following Official CD images > > of the "stable" releases from Debian mirror sites; > > > > debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso > > debian-30r1-i386-binary-7.iso > > > > I have not downloaded other ISO CD images. Can I install a stardard > > Debian-Linux workstation only from these 2 CDs > > That depends strongly on what you call "standard", and on your internet > connection. You can install the base system from CD 1, as well as a > working X environment, even with KDE. However, you very probably will > want to install packages that are on the second CD. Generally, you can > say that the most important packages are on CD 1, while the least > important ones are on CD 7. But you can also install from CD 1 and get > the rest of the packages you need over the net by adding some Debian > mirror to your sources.list. > > best regards > Andreas Janssen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
