Hi, I tried looking in debian.org for the "testing" version to download- I looked for over an hour before giving up- then I got smart, went to the RedHat site, and within 1 minute and ~5 mouse clicks I got to the explanation of what to download and to the download files themselves. After that I understood I had to look for something called an iso cd image file, but even then it took me another 5 minutes to find the files I wanted- the "unofficial woody" release at ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/woody/ . And I still don't know how to get from the cdimage site http://cdimage.debian.org/ to the official CD images files- I tried answering the questions on the page, but that just led me to a page (http://cdimage.debian.org/ch1211.html) telling me I had to download something called the Pseudo-Image Kit. I **don't want to** (and even if I wanted to, I have no way to) install some program on my workstation at work, I just want to download the cd image files. Sigh... i'm starting to understand why people say the installation of Debian is difficult- if this is what I had to go through just to find the installation files, what will I go through actually installing the OS?
Comments are welcome :-) PS, the steps to find the iso files in the redhat site: 1. Type redhat.com in your browser URL bar and hit Enter. (http://www.redhat.com/) 2. Click on the word "DOWNLOAD" on the upper right hand corner of the page. (http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/) 3. Click on the "Red Hat Linux 7.2" link in the center of the page. (http://www.redhat.com/download/rhlinux72.html) 4. Read the download instructions in the "How to download Red Hat Linux" link. (http://www.redhat.com/download/howto_download.html) 5. From 3, Click on the "Download Now!" link. (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/) 6. Click on "iso". (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/) 7. Click on "i386". (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/iso/i386/) and you're there. Now why can't the Debian site be this simple !?!? ------------------------------- Offer Kaye Analog Circuit Design Engineer Oren Semiconductor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +972-4-9095555 ext. 1-309 -------------------------------
