On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 18:11 -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > [snip] > Here is the situation. > I have a complete set of squeeze images in DVD, I do mean complete. > I have no network connection in the computer I am installing debian on, so > wish to install all of these images, so as not to need to update any > packages.
You hardly will need the packages from all DVDs, I suspect that there's too much software you don't need. Don't install all images ;). > Better more debian than I might need, than not enough. Wrong! You want 1000 daemons running, doing resource hungry operations that will slow down performance, even if they should be completely useless for you? > [snip] > I was told that there would be a way to start the install with wheezy from > cd, but finish from the desired squeeze images At least a newbie shouldn't try to install "stable" by starting to install "testing" first. > [snip] Get the first install CD for Debian stable, don't use the first CD for testing. http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.5/i386/iso-cd/ http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.5/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.5-amd64-CD-1.iso 0,02€, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1339456013.3015.16.camel@precise
