> However, I wonder what's in all of those DVDs and whether it's worth > to download all of them and play with them locally. Or whether it's > better to download/install from the network. I have never worked with > Debian before.
The CDs contain ALL Debian packages, sorted by popularity. So generally you will only need one or two disks, unless you have very special needs. I think there is an index somewhere. But the preferred install method is of course the network install. I think the network install is like 20 MB or something like that. The first times I did a network install the "Base" installation was 7 diskettes, and the network install was 3. But that was a few years ago (like 10 probably:-). /Peter
