John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:05:56 -0600 > Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> dijo: > >>> OK, I'm downloading the live CD ISOs. Oddly, the web site says they >>> will fit on a CD, yet each ISO is around 1 GB. Maybe they have >>> special CDs in Debian-land. > >> That doesn't sound right. >> I just went looking and >> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.6/i386/iso-cd/ shows >> all the CDs in the 640MB range. >> >> Are you getting "testing" rather than "stable"? I vaguely >> recall some discussion about what would have to go to allow >> what the developers considered an adequate minimal install >> on one CD. I didn't follow the discussion as downloading >> isn't practical due to dial-up connection. > > I am downloading via torrent, and I got the torrent files from here: > > http://www.debian.org/CD/live/ > > That is a different web site than the one you cite. And yes, it says > they are the stable release, version 6.05. I wonder what is going on.
The LiveCD has a more representative sample of applications an average user is likely to install. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
