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Author: Major.Mikey
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: install-fest distributions
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/.


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