On Monday, 09-09-2024 at 20:28 basti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i would use debian netinstall: https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ rather
> than download the whole DVD.
I have often wondered that question myself.
If you are doing a single installation and have access to the internet while
doing the installation, I believe the netinstall CD makes more sense.
If you do not have access to the Internet while doing the installation, I think
the DVD makes more sense.
Sometimes I download the DVD because, over time, I will install a number of
times (for example, install a number of VMs to compare the various GUIs), but I
have found that by the time I get to use the DVD, there are later minor
versions out, hence quite a number of packages have been updated or upgrades
since I did the download, such that I wonder if I would have been better off
using the netinstall CD.
Have I managed to confuse you with my own confusion? Sorry if I did, but my
gut feel is that the netinstall CD makes the most sense if you have access to
the Internet while doing the installation (unless your will be doing 20 or more
installations on the same day you downloaded the DVD.
George.
>
> Best regards
>
>
> On 09.09.24 12:08, Mick Ab wrote:
> > I am interested in installing bookworm alongside the current Windows 7
> > on an old HP ProBook 6570b laptop.
> >
> > I am thinking of downloading the first two DVDs of bookworm from one of
> > the Debian mirror sites, then copying that to two DVD-R discs and
> > installing bookworm those two discs.
> >
> > I think I have enough RAM and hard drive to accommodate bookworm, but I
> > am not sure whether my laptop has the other hardware needed to run bookworm.
> >
> > Any advice on this matter would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
>
