> I bought the December issue of PCQuest which also contains a DVD with > Debian Sarge. Is this the same version as Pranab is offerening? If > it is then is there a lot more sofware on the 9 ISO's (binaries) > than on the PCQ DVD? I looked in the DVD and could not find > information about which release it is - other than "sarge". > It's a slightly old snapshot of sarge. I guess it has the first 8-9 cd's. I have the 25th December snapshot. The packages are newer. For eg, the PCQ dvd has Firefox 0.9, Thunderbird 0.8 and Evolution 1.4.3. The set I have has Firefox 1.0, Thunderbird 0.9 and Evolution 2.0.3. Btw, the sarge base + standard has now been frozen. > > Hello , > > The second ISO in the set of 15 seems to be corrupted.I tried > > 'mount -o loop'ing it but didnt work.Then tried a few ISO related s/w > > on it but, no luck.The rest are ok.Is there any other tool which i > > upon could try > > the ISO ? The cds 1 to 9 contain binaries. The remaing are sources. > > > > Pranav. Are you sure you have sarge? Because my set has 15 binary cd's. > > So is it possible to install it since one of the ISO's is corrupted? I > am not just curious, I have been keen on getting Debian to install for > quite a long time. > I guess you can just install the base system and then apt-get install the packages you need > I had not installed the stable version (woody r1) since I understood that > it lagged far behind other distros (I don't mean to put it down, maybe > that was just my ignorance) and I had a very limited internet > connection. I now have a second (internet only) telephone line and I > feel much more comfortable tackling debian since I now have some years > of linux experience. One of the first distro's I tried to install was > Debian potato about four years ago, but I never got it to work. Gus. > Try sarge. Definitely worth a shot. It's a far cry from woody.
Kaustubh -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
