Try reading the install documentation. It tells you all you need to know
about installing the base system. From there, you download packages.gz
files that have lists of packages and you select which ones you want.
This is all taken care of in the installation process so all you need to
do is install the base system, which as I said, you can learn how to do
from reading the install txt. In the future, please try no to be so harsh
when mailing to this list. You are obviously frustrated, but you can get
more flies with honey than vinegar. Everyone on here is willing to help
so all you have to do is ask.
Rob
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, John Hall wrote:
>
> Webmaster at Debian,
>
> How in the world do I download Debian? I've been at your site for 30
> MINUTES and have gone to every distribution link on it, but there's no
> singular link that actually downloads ALL 2250 files of Debian, and WHO
> in the world is going to down load TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY
> FILES one at a time!! Please, if you expect any users other than
> 24-hour computer junkies to use your software, get your act together
> and SHOW me a very obvious link that allows me, the USER, the Customer,
> to easily down all 2250 files in one hit. As of this moment I don't
> even know where to start, even though I've been at you site for 30
> minutes! If you haven't recieved hundreds of e-mails like this, I can
> assure it's because the potential Debian/Linux user gets so fed up,
> that they simply give up and stick with Windows because even Microsoft
> knows how to deal with actual people. I don't want you to do everything
> for me, but PLEASE make a SINGLE download, even a zip containing all
> those files, so that I don't have to spend 5 hours trying to install
> YOUR software! The public wants Linux and Open Software, but your
> making it very hard to adjust, even for some one who is a hobbiest in
> writing simple java and C++ apps. Thank you for reading.
>
> -Hopefully, a soon to be satisfied user
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