Hi everyone, I've been using Red Hat for a reasonable amount of time, but I'm a total newbie to Debian; I'm just installing potato for the first time today.
I'm starting to get familiar with the tools, but I must admit that I'm a little overwhelmed by the number of packages in the distribution. And so far, I've only been looking at the one binary CDROM. :) Is there a sane approach to initially selecting packages? Is it best to use the tasks, or go through the entire list package-by-package? Would you start with just the CD and then add the FTP site to sources.list later, or consider everything all at once? Acutally, I have a further question about the task packages. Using dselect, if I try to purge a package that has been added bacause of a task, it tells me, of course, that the task package depends on the one I want to remove. Should I remove the task? Will all the other packages that were installed because of it remain? Sorry for the newbie questions. Thanks for any help. -- David Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]