On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:53:35PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >> The two CDs I have are actually two DVDs that came out of a magazine, > >> including the complete Debian Sarge 3.1 stable. > >> I have no more installation media. > >> I thought they were including everything I'd need, but instead, > >> if I understand what you say, they are not sufficient to fully satisfy > >> all the installation needs with Debian Sarge. > >> Sorry if I'm not technically correct. > >> Does anybody know how I could burn a source CD for the two I have? > > > > Chris Metzler writes: > > > Do you not have network access from that machine? If so, just add > > some network sources to your sources.list, and pull the source from > > over the net. > > > > This is all explained in the documentation, btw. > > > > man sources.list > > http://www.debian.org/doc/ (esp. the Apt HOWTO) > > > Thanks, I'll try. > Only, I'm disapponted because I'd preferred I could do without the net > when installing packages: that all I needed was there in my two DVDs. >
All you need to install and run a system from binaries is on the two DVDs. If you want to build packages you need more stuff. You could however easily apt-get install emacs and have a running emacs without having to build it. A
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