On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:37:02AM -0800, sergey dyshel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I'm want would download your distribution but it > contains more than 10 CD's. Do you have a > distribution of 1 or 2 CD's which contains only > basic set of packages (like compiler, shell, > XFree86)? My internet access is very restricted > therefore I can afford myself to download no > more than 2 CD's (must be bootable). All I > need from Linux is development environment: gcc, make, > emacs, tex, gdb.
You do not need all 10 CDs merely to install Debian. You only need the CDs for packages you intend to install -- and if you can get your internet connection working from within Debian, you can download individual packages from the FTP archive. The CDs are supposed to be set up so that the most important/popular packages are on the first CD, the next most important are on the second CD, and so on. You are certainly safe just getting the first two CDs. I don't know exactly what's on them, but I believe the programs you mentioned are. All that said, you may want to investigate a network-based installation if that is possible. You can download some floppies, or a small CD image, boot off those, and download packages as the install progresses. If you are not installing very much software, you'll probably end up downloading less this way. For more information, look around the Debian web page under "Getting Debian": http://www.debian.org/distrib/ Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | After the game, the king and | | the pawn go in the same box. | | -- Italian proverb | \----------------- The Turtle Moves! -- http://www.lspace.org ----------------/