On Sat 21 Sep 2024 at 07:03:58 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 09/20/2024 10:57 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 20 Sep 2024 at 07:53:28 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 09/19/2024 10:04 AM, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Thu 19 Sep 2024 at 09:16:25 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > Is the AMD64 version of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide" > > > > > available as a single file. > > > > > > > > > > I need it available when the network is not. > > > > > > > > > > It would be convenient if a copy of the menus appearing when > > > > > installing from DVD1 were available. > > > > > > > > Have you tried googling: > > > > > > > > debian stable installation guide pdf amd64 > > > > > > > > which should lead you to: > > > > > > > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/install.en.pdf > > > > > > No ;} > > > For two primary reasons: > > > 1. due to vision/perception problems I avoid PDF in favor of HTML. > > > SeaMonkey simplifies consistent font size across documents. > > > 2. My work style uses tabs to group (and save across restarts) > > > related references conveniently. > > > > > > Secondarily, for those preferring PDF, in my use of SeaMonkey since > > > days of Squeeze I never noticed mention of its documentation being > > > available as PDF. > > > > The PDF is ~650kB, but for ~17MB you can get all three formats > > (PDF/text/HTML) as one file (in the sense it seems you mean) in > > the Debian package installation-guide-amd64. > > As you didn't give a URL, I went to > https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%22Debian%22%20%22package%22%20%22installation-guide-amd64%22
URLs aren't a sensible way to refer to Debian packages amongst Debian users, as we all have the APT tools to locate/download/install them. > That did not link to "all three formats (PDF/text/HTML) as one file" > available to one who does not have Debian already installed. If it linked to a .deb file, then technically that's not true, as .deb files are just two compressed tar archives (.xz, formerly .gz IIRC) in an ar archive. But I don't follow why that's of particular concern. > 1st hit of "Details of package installation-guide-amd64 in bullseye" > prompted travel in right direction. > > I've been using Debian since Squeeze. I have never been pointed to > [ /usr/share/doc ] nor [ /usr/share/doc-base ]. The latter contains > the "Installation Guide" as uncompressed HTML filed. PDF&text versions > are there in compressed format. Since ~woody, and taken here from squeeze's Installation Guide ยง7.3: "Documentation accompanying programs you have installed can be found in /usr/share/doc/, un- der a subdirectory named after the program (or, more precise, the Debian package that contains the program). However, more extensive documentation is often packaged separately in special documen- tation packages that are mostly not installed by default. For example, documentation about the pack- age management tool apt can be found in the packages apt-doc or apt-howto. "In addition, there are some special folders within the /usr/share/doc/ hierarchy. Linux HOWTOs are installed in .gz (compressed) format, in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/. After installing dhelp, you will find a browsable index of documentation in /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html." > > Using tabs isn't affected by whether the HTML code itself is in > > a "single" file or a tree. > > My mention of tabs was to point out why PDF was not useful. I could expand my mention of tabs to include that you can have multiple browser tabs showing different parts of one PDF file in the same way as you can with an HTML file. > > > Because I'm doing a "from scratch" install for the first time in > > > several years, I said: > > > > It would be convenient if a copy of the menus appearing when installing > > > > from DVD1 were available. > > > > Sorry, I would have thought you could recite them from memory by now :) > > Tell me that with a straight face when you pass 80 ;)! > [I haven't seen that set of screens in at least 5 years.] I recalled a "SUCESSFUL INSTALL" [sic] status report from May 2022, and also thought you had restarted installing about 3 months ago. Perhaps I was assuming too much. On Sun 22 Sep 2024 at 06:16:53 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 09/19/2024 09:16 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Is the AMD64 version of "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide" > > available as a single file. > > > > I need it available when the network is not. You can download it as a single file or in a tree. See your post: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/04/msg00289.html > IF you have *already* installed Debian, the individual HTML files and > compressed copies of the PDF and plain text versions are in > /usr/share/doc/installation-guide-amd64/en/ . > > I have not found where this would be available to a potential first > time user of Debian. I don't see any reason for a first time user wanting all three formats. I think it's more likely that someone lacking a Debian system might google what's in the quotes near the top of this post; in fact, just the two terms "debian installation" give me a link to the HTML version for the same release/architecture as above. Cheers, David.
