Introductions(Potato)

"Derek A. Neighbors" wrote:
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> >
> >
> >When I was starting out on Debian 6 months ago, this book came with an
> >old Debian(slink?). I was told that ordering the Disks form
> >cheapbytes(link from debian.org) was the way to go and they are less
> >that $10. The comments on the book where okay, so you certainly are okay
> >there.
> >
> Hmmm... Upgraded a box here the other night from stable to testing lets
> review:
Read that it came with a non-standard version of slink and alot of
people had bad luck with it.

If you start with potato or if the disks are potato(2.2) then it is no
problem. Having the disks, saves a ton of time for loading programs off
the cd versus the net unless you have a big pipe.

Eric