Hi Shiato! =) On 5/22/06, Shiato Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
a newbie question why does the debian has many 14 cd's,
Debian has 14 (or so) CDs (depending if you get the rX Update CDs) because they are the snapshot of the _entire_ Debian archive for version 3.0(r2), which you can access easily at http://ftp.debian.org/debian , among other places/mirrors. And because Debian doesn't ship ``official'' CDs (unlike Ubuntu), Debian has an advantage: they can funish ``official CD _images_'' that third-party distributors (who may or may be not unrestricted by export/redistribution laws) can obtain, and can contain software that may not be redistributable by otherwise ``official CDs'' such as those from Ubuntu; this is the reason why Ubuntu doesn't ship MP3 codec libraries, in constrast to Debian, which does come with several decoding libs. On the other hand, don't expect Debian (or its support umbrella Software in the Public Interest) to sell ``official Debian CDs'' soon, due to the same reasons above.
instead can i use cd 1 & 2
Of course, getting the entire CD collection isn't the point; is getting the Debian distribution to work for you that is ;-) CDs 1 and 2 both contain the Debian-Installer images (although iirc only CD 1 has the basedebs.tar set of packages.) If you need to get some software that's not on the two CDs, you can simply reconfigure your APT setup to grab packages via the HTTP or FTP mirrors of the Debian archive.[0] See the `quick-reference' or `debian-reference' package, or the Debian Wiki at http://wiki.debian.org , for more information. Cheers, Zakame [0] On a slightly more cheerful note, the new APT packages from the Debian unstable suite now support incremental Package List updates, which means that even those dial-up users living off unstable can now expect doing `apt-get update` faster than old times (think of grabbing just around 50kB of pdiffs rather than 3 megs or so of compressed Packages lists.) Hopefully Ubuntu Eft gets this soon... -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D
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