I'm sorry, I should have pointed you towards the source of my article-extract because there are MANY more things in it then what I showed. One of which is Progeny. I think that might be a good one to have. Could we discuss that one? Would it be good to put on my low-power computer? On Sunday 20 March 2005 04:00 pm, Major.Mikey wrote: > I haven't been following that thread but I found a couple of paragraphs in > an article that may be of some use (my appologese if it has already been > mentioned): > > Starting with the “sarge” release of Debian, which should be ready by the > time you read this article, Debian is installed with the new Debian > Installer, an easy-to-use, character-based, menu-driven installation > program. As of this writing, the Debian Installer was available with the > netinst bootable CD images, which are only 100 MB or so in size. netinst > contains just the base-level Debian files; the rest of the distribution is > downloaded from the Internet. > If you have a broadband Internet connection, the netinst CDs are probably > the way to go. You can get the netinst CD images for your computer > architecture from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/. > The Debian installer guides you through the entire install process, and it > allows you to choose a pre-set collection of packages to install a working > GNOME desktop with all the basic amenities, such as the Mozilla web browser > and OpenOffice. If you need more software installed, have a look at the > “Debian Package List” home page at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages/. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss