On Tuesday 12 December 2000 03:35, Xucaen wrote: > this sounds like fun. :-) I've been > contemplating my options and I think installing > from the base disk sets would be good. it would > at least give me a better understanding of and > more control over what is actually being > installed. (as opposed to installing > _everything_) > Is the apt-get difficult to set up? also, does it > have a way of picking up where it left off in the > event of a lost carrier? (33.6 and still > modulating!)
If you are using a 33.6 then this is definetely the way to go :). You can have a fully funtional environment and still save 300 megs of downloading. apt-get is very functional and easy to use. The task packages will make large sections of the setup easy. There is a little front end for this called tasksel. Basically something like 'apt-get install task-x-window-sysem' will install everything you need for X and resolve any dependencies. And if a connection gets dropped or a download times out it can be resumed. HTH, jt