stephan.sens wrote:
My name is Stephan and I have a problem installing further packaged of
debian on my computer.
I successfully downloaded Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r3 "Sarge" - Official
i386 Binary-1 and burned it on a bootable CD-R.
My computer (i386) was able to boot from this CD and installed a
‘basic’ system (Germany Time, Keyboard, Desktop partion, ect.)
Unfortunately I have no Linux background and I am not able to install
further packages?!
My thinking was to download the first three ISO Binary images 31r3 on
CD and start from there but it looks like that the right format is
.deb or tar.gz. It was possible to unzip tar.gz files but after
./configure some error messages were displayed telling me compilers
ect. are missing.
One approach to installation (see www.debian.org/distrib) is to download
a set of CD ISO images, boot from the first CD of the set, and configure
"/etc/apt/sources.list" to recognize each CD in the set; the installer
should have given you this option, if you chose to "install from
CD-ROM". The most popular packages are contained on the lowest-number
CDs, so you can get a system running with only the first CD, but most
people need the first three or even five CDs to install a reasonable
system. Seldom do you need the complete set of about 15 CDs.
If you have a broadband connection, perhaps the best approach is to
choose "install from network" (or "install from http:" or whatever the
option is labeled). If you choose this option, you can begin the
installation by booting from a CD with a small "netinstall" image, which
can be downloaded in a few minutes. But you also can begin the
installation by booting from the first CD of the complete set.
Once a basic system is installed and running, you can reconfigure
"/etc/apt/sources.list" to download packages over the network from the
Debian repository. Simply comment out the CD (as per the example) and
add the proper sources. Here is my "/etc/apt/sources.list":
#################################################################
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386
Binary-1 (20060810)]/ etch main
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
#################################################################
Note that you cannot add CDs manually to "/etc/apt/sources.list"; you
must use "apt-cdrom"; see the man page for "sources.list". (To display
the man page, execute the command "man sources.list".)
What is the right installation procedure of the packages to build up a
system from scratch able to office programs, to have internet access,
be able to print? What can I do with these three iso binary images?
Any use of 1.8GB of data and if yes, how can I use them?
After the first reboot following installation, the installer should give
you the option of installing various packages groups, such as "desktop",
"laptop", "server", etc. The only way I know to utilize the ISO images
you have is to burn the images to CD and then proceed as above.
Sorry to bother you but I couldn’t find an answer to my basic question
even not in my books which deals more with SUSE or Red-Hat.
They make it easy just to mount CD1, CD2, … but I would like to build
the system from scratch.
Don't apologize; answering questions of this sort is the purpose of this
list.
If there is any book you can recommend, please, do so! English books
are welcome!
Anything by O'Reilly (such as "Running Debian") typically is
well-written; but anything published commercially typically is a little
outdated.
RLH
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