[ale] Debian 3.0 as a server platform?

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 22:24:02 EDT 2005


ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.2/iso/ <-- DVD ISO right there.

I really don't know what the difference is. I haven't installed a
desktop version of Debian from a full CD in years. I always use a
network install disk. But, no, Debian does not come with all its
packages on a single CD. They give the answer best:

"Which of the numerous CD images should I download? Do I need all of them?

No, you only need the CD images for your computer's architecture. The
architecture is the type of hardware your computer uses. By far the
most popular one is the Intel architecture, so most people will only
want to get the images for "i386".

Furthermore, in most cases it is not necessary to download all of the
images for your architecture. The packages on the CDs are sorted by
popularity: CD 1 contains the installation system and the most popular
packages. CD 2 contains slightly less popular ones, CD 3 even less
popular ones, etc. You will probably not need CD 3 and higher unless
you have very special requirements. (And in case you happen to need a
package later on which is not on one of the CDs you downloaded, you
can always install that package directly from the Internet.)" --
http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/

The difference that I have been talking about is that Debian doesn't
install the whole CD by default. You have to actually do extra steps
during the installation for it do to that. It is the complete opposite
of SuSE, Red Hat, or Mandrake where you have to perform extra steps
during the installation to install the bare minimum.

When I said the SuSE 9.1 Personal CD is lacking in packages I meant
packages that to install any extra software you have to use the
network. You can't install them from the CD. If you are not
experienced and know that you can change where Yast retrieves packages
from it seems like there isn't a whole lot of software available for
SuSE 9.1. I know someone who had exactly that problem. The SuSE 9.1
single CD only gives you what the company thinks you would want and no
readily apparent way to get around it.

On 6/5/05, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
> > Actually, I never said a word about the Zaurus. I've never used one.
> 
> My mistake and I apologize.  I got posts mixed up.
> 
> > Oh, and I made a mistake in my last email. It is SuSE 9.1 that can
> > still be downloaded in one CD, albeit severly lacking in packages, not
> > SuSE 9.2. I'm updating Firefox on my Grandfather's machine right now
> > and realized the mistake because he is using 9.1.
> 
> I'm not really quite sure what you expect.  You can get a full SuSE on a
> dvd for both 9.2 and 9.3. You're not going to have the option of a net
> download, so we're really talking apples to oranges here.
> 
> Certainly Debian does not come with all it's packages on a single cd?
> 
> So what's different between the minimal install of Debian from a single
> disk and SuSE?
> 
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

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