The best way in my opinion to get a debian desktop system is knoppix 
disk. To install and config a full featured debian desktop that you do 
not know all about the sound and video setting would take what, 5-6 
hours? Knoppix install from one disk and configured in less than one. 
Whatever you do not want you can apt-get remove away.

der.hans wrote:
> Am 19. May, 2003 schwätzte Bart Garst so:
> 
> 
>>I'm curious to know what is on the Debian ISO images. There are 6 images
> 
> 
> over 6,000 packages ;-)
> 
> 
>>(3.0r1), numbered 1-3 & 5-7. RedHat distributes 3 disks with binaries on
>>them, 2 source disks, and 1 documentation disk. Am I looking at a
>>similar arrangement with Debian?
> 
> 
> Yes. I don't know what they are anymore.
> 
> http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#which-cd
> 
> See two questions down from that as well and maybe peruse the whole FAQ.
> 
> I think it's a little out of date as I'm pretty certain debian no longer has
> .us and non-.us CDs. Maybe it does for Woody.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans