I am trying to download a basic package for the 68K Mac from the Debian ftp site and could use some help please.
Files seem to be spread all over with no rhyme or reason. As a result I can't be sure what I need or where to find it (and I've installed Debian once before and BSD once too). There seems to be a basic package that is not clearly labeled as such (just "Debian") and is, to my way of thinking, way too small to be a full basic install. (About 14 megs stuffed, including the Base2.1gz file which of course was somewhere else on the ftp site. WHY?WHY?WHY?). The minimalist information on the web site also seems to suggest very strongly that there are no man pages included with the above "package", but that the man pages must be downloaded separately, also difficult to make sense of, from a separate page. The packages page took me a couple of hours to find at all, then when I did, it made little sense. I opened the X windows page and found everything in there EXCEPT X windows!!! Unless the Debian folks have performed a Guiness class miracle in compact software design, Xwindows is certainly not contained in the "Debian" package, it also isn't in the X folder of the ftp site, so can anyone give me a clue as to where it might be? Why on earth can't they put together some basic packages and clearly label them?: 1. minimal system install 2. full system install 3. full system + Xwindows install 4. all the other stuff you might need or want thrown in a box Do they really think that someone wanting to install Linux might not want the man pages? Is that why they are off in some other corner of the web site? I can accept the argument, "Linux is difficult to install." I can also accept the argument that, "Linux is difficult to learn." But I find it hard to accept the argument that, "Because they're Linux files, it is difficult to clearly organize and label them on the ftp site." Thanks for letting me blow off steam. And TIA for helping me make sense out of this gibberish. David Kachel
