On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:41:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do I want to download all of these files? How would I know, being a > first time user, what I "want" to download?
Um - you read the FAQ? ;-) > What are these "Woody" files, what do they have to do with the Debian program? Each major Debian release has a codename. Furthermore, there are three releases which you'll see mentioned on the web pages: "stable" (codename "woody"), "testing" (aka "sarge") and "unstable" (aka "sid"). > I downloaded the Jigdo lite program and ran it. At the prompt I typed in > the following (as per the example when you run the Jigdo Lite): > http://server/cd-{1_nonus,2,3}.jigdo and http://debian.org/cd/jigdo-cd/ Ah well, that's just an example. To download the first Debian CD, you need to enter the following: http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r2/jigdo/i386/woody-i386-1.jigdo You can find this URL by going to <http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/>, clicking on "USA mirror" in the "Official images" section and then going to "i386". i386 is our abbreviation of "Intel/AMD compatible computer". Each .jigdo file corresponds to one CD image. > Is this method just too advanced for people new to Linux? That's a difficult question, especially for me as the author of jigdo-lite... I suspect that Debian in general may not be for you - while we're busy working on making everything more user-friendly, other distros generally feature smoother installation etc. If you just want to see what Linux looks like, without any installation etc at all, I recommend you take a look at Knoppix, which is based on Debian - see <http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html> Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
