Hi, many thanks to all who give me precious tips.
Now I have a much better picture what to get. Last night, I just selected "standard" and "install", miraculously, it started downloading and install automatically - I happened to logged on to my ISP. How great it is, isnt it ? this list is soooo great. thank you all Ben Jim Lynch wrote: > Hi, > > The Standard System in debian is defined as: > - all "required" packages > - all "important" packages, and > - all "standard" packages. > > It does -not- include (but you are welcome to install some of them anyway): > - any "optional" packages, or > - any "extra" packages. > > As versions come and go, things are moved around, added or removed. Check > the package list in dselect or look at the packages files directly to find > out what is where in the particular version of debian you installed (or are > thinking about installing) on your computer. > > -Jim > > --- > Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key > as Laney College CIS admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laney.edu/~jim/ > as Debian developer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~jwl/ > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]