-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> Unfortunately the proxy and firewalls here do not allow me to use jigdo > or bit-torrent, and so the only way for me to download the ISOs are by > downloading them directly. Over a day or two I managed to download the > first of the ISO files. After downloading, I figure that maybe I should > have downloaded the non-US version -- frankly, I hadn't noticed that > there's a non-US version too present -- and so am now thinking: is there > any way I can "convert" the US version ISO file into a non-US version? Not really. But you don't need to. > Maybe using jigdo or something (which I can do from home over my > dial-up). Or I can install with the US version and then fetch the non-US > packages or something? The latter. Debian has a non-US package download site that you can access via apt-get. The non-US ISOs basically just have a couple different packages on the CD. And frankly, these days, there isn't much on the non-US site anymore. My Woody disc set is the non-US version, but it doesn't really matter much. Back when there were different versions of PGP for US and non-US, it mattered, but now that we're all on GnuPG, it doesn't much anymore. > ps. One more question: how come there are SEVEN ISOs for download? Just > to get things up and running (and the with the typical end-user > applications) how many of these do I have to download? The first two. My Woody i386 set is the full 7-disk monster. However, my PPC set is just the first four. That's because I have broadband at home though. :) At one point, I needed to put Woody on an i386 laptop with no network access, and so I grabbed them all. Basically, everything after the first disk is just packages. Most of your common packages are on disk 2; disk 1 contains the installer plus the Absolutely Essential Packages to boot. I did install a few packages off disk 6 on that laptop though, and I think once I used disk 7. However, keep in mind that the more disks you download at work (via broadband) the fewer packages you're going to have to download at home (via dialup). It's also not a bad idea to Google for the ISO filenames. I got much quicker downloading access by spreading my downloads across a number of 'unofficial' mirrors that aren't listed at debian.org. It's also possible, incidentally, to install Debian via a floppy installer, even these days. You need network access during the install to make that work, though. - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBIQcQMqUhaD+LmFcRAj1BAJ47nJLSGzO3/IQFXxqT6OSyTbh9UACdEJ/Z z7fpJ9kAlw8j+82fiXDk3Ik= =A+fo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
