[vox-tech] Debian download - 8 disks?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting andy wergedal (awerg@yahoo.com):

> Is there a step-by-step howto do this?

Download http://www.debian.or.kr/~alee/cdimages/woody.iso (177MB) .  Burn it.
Boot it.  Take the defaults right through Simple Package Selection.
In program that offers that, pick package groups you want.  Pick Finish.
Pick "No" on entering "dselect".  Otherwise, keep taking defaults.
Login as root when it's done.

Add some of these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list , for stuff you want:

## Official sources for Testing branch:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

## Unofficial sources (may come and go, may issue dodgy packages):
# KDE 3.1 beta
deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody/ ./
# KOffice 3.0, other KDE3
deb http://people.debian.org/~bab/kde3/ ./
# Other KDE3
deb http://kde3.geniussystems.net/ ./
# OpenOffice.org
deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ testing main contrib
# GNOME2
deb http://gluck.debian.org/~kov/debian woody gnome2
# Xine-CSS and vlc-css
deb http://www.samfundet.no/~tfheen/debian/dists/woody/css/ ./
# Mplayer and libaviplay-codecs 
deb http://mplayer.nmeos.net/ ./
# Sun Java J2r1.3
deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian testing non-free
deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian testing main non-free

Save changes.
Type "apt-get update".
Launch "aptitude", use it to pick other packages you want.

Start using Debian.

> I _love_ apt but I have never been able to finish a debian
> install with the network running.

Why, what ethernet chipset is it?

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