Help with Downloading Debian from the Internet please

[Eejay]

I never realized until just now that Debian had mirror websites where people could go to, then download these ... ISO images.

My current DSL connection to the Internet is a little bit over 3 Megs so I'm guessing that 3 megs would be fast enough to download these.. ISO images as well as what ever else that may be needed.

I'm looking at a page on Debian s website where the images are located the menu offers three different was to download Debian

I have no idea which method to choose they also want me to download a program that is needed to download the ISO images, I have no idea how to go about downloading, or Burning these ISO images to a CD or CD-s I'm guessing that the best way to go about doing this would be to install a FTP client from my Ubuntu disk then download them that way just not 100 percent sure which method to use.

Dose anyone have any suggestions on what would be the best method to download Debian

[hard candy]

Use the search function "debian download". You only really need the first 3 cd's. And you could get by with just the first one and install the rest with apt-get.
http://www.tlm-project.org/ by matt2kjones has distro torrents avaialble. You can use Azureus to download them.

[timothykaine]

I would recommend downloading the netinst (network install) disc instead. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

It contains just the base system and installs other components straight from the internet so you only download what you actually need.

If youre going to install it on several computers than maybe just download the first 3 CDs as Hard candy suggested (thought you only needed the first though, someone correct me).

As for download method, you can use FTP client but I prefer wget. Just type "wget http://domain.com/filename.ext" in terminal and you can also resume the download if you cut it short. Instructions in "man wget".

For burning the ISO, install K3B (you may have to uncomment universe in your /etc/apt/sources.list file for it to become available), and then Tools>CD>Burn Image.

Enjoy Debian!

[deathadder]

You can get the system installed using just the first cd. It installs all the base packages that you need, once you've rebooted and finished your install, use apt-get to install anything else you want, X, KDE/Gnome, or what ever, apt's a lot better than dselect and what ever the other one's called :)

To install with apt-get:

apt-get install foo

To search with apt-get:

apt-cache search foo

To edit your apt source list, you can edit the /etc/apt/source.list or run apt-setup

[blackbelt_jones]

Originally posted by timothykaine
I would recommend downloading the netinst (network install) disc instead. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

It contains just the base system and installs other components straight from the internet so you only download what you actually need.


Exactly the link that I was going to give you. If you've got a broadband connection, nothing is easier or more efficient than the Sarge installer.

Here's a tip, when the installer disk boots, you can type:

linux26

at the boot prompt and you'll get new, faster kernel, series 2.6

Originally posted by deathadder
You can get the system installed using just the first cd. It installs all the base packages that you need, once you've rebooted and finished your install, use apt-get to install anything else you want, X, KDE/Gnome, or what ever, apt's a lot better than dselect and what ever the other one's called :)

To install with apt-get:

apt-get install foo

To search with apt-get:

apt-cache search foo

To edit your apt source list, you can edit the /etc/apt/source.list or run apt-setup

I'm afraid this post, while invaluble, may be confusing. Most of it concerns installing packages with apt-get (my persoanl favorite reason for running debian) but right now you're installing debian... so here's how I do that:

*Download the installer disk (Wget is a great suggestion), and burn.

*boot the disk (I always type linux26 at the boot prompt)

*follow the instructions in the installer.

*Voila!

To that I would add that, if you only have one computer, it might be good to have a live CD like kanotix handy so you can get back here easily to ask more questions if you run into trouble.

[Eejay]

Wow this is going to be a lot more complicated then I though

I not sure if any burning riping gizmos came with Ubuntu Linux
here is the page where I'm going to download the ISO images from

http://www.tlm-project.org/torrents/debian/3.0r2/i386/

The Linux Mirror Project
Parent Directory
debian-30r2-i386-binary-1.iso.torrent
debian-30r2-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso.torrent
debian-30r2-i386-binary-2.iso.torrent
debian-30r2-i386-binary-3.iso.torrent
debian-30r2-i386-binary-4.iso.torrent
debian-30r2-i386-binary-5.iso.torrent
debian-30r2-i386-binary-6.iso.torrent
debian-30r2-i386-binary-7.iso.torrent

Should I just download the first line that reads debian-30r2-!386-binary-1.iso.torrent
And then app get the rest of the packages after installing the download

also when I click on the link that says debian-30r2-!386-binary-1.iso.torrent then go to download it a box pops up that says save the file to disk or open with file roller, I'm not sure which option to choose or which link to download

Sorry for being such a Noob

[blackbelt_jones]

Okay, first of all, you're trying to download Woody, an earlier version of Debian, and that's not reccomended for newbies (not by me, anyway) What you need is the later version, Sarge-- a huge leap forward in user friendliness.

Believe me, this can be done a whole lot simpler, and I'd be happy to tell you all about it, but first let me know if you have a broadband or dial-up connection so I can advise you appropriately.

[Eejay]

Originally posted by blackbelt_jones
Okay, first of all, you're trying to download Woody, an earlier version of Debian, and that's not reccomended for newbies (not by me, anyway) What you need is the later version, Sarge-- a huge leap forward in user friendliness.

Believe me, this can be done a whole lot simpler, and I'd be happy to tell you all about it, but first let me know if you have a broadband or dial-up connection so I can advise you appropriately.

Oh, IRC... Yes I just looked at the control panel, IRC wasn't installed so I just now installed it, IRC is now up and running ( couldn't find the channel you were referring to but found numerous pre installed Linux servers.

The Only problem with using IRC on the Lap Top, is that I can't get the laptop to automatically recognize CD-s when they are inserted into the CD Rom The lap top it pretty much worthless, the hard drive has to somehow be reformatted to remove all the viruses Bugs etc in order to make it work

I'm not sure if Ubuntu has a CD burner or not, but right now I'm looking at the control panel under Multimedia and see a program named Sound juicer CD ripper' I'm guessing that, thats a CD burner.


The only options I have now is to either somehow find a way, command that will allow me to reformat the hard drive Or-

Just download Debian from the desktop, then if something, gos wrong , the computer wont connect to the Internet etc reinstall Ubuntu again and take it from there

All I really need to know is which lines to download and how many such as the first 3 lines etc

I'm looking at Debian s website, Under Installing sarge with the Debian-Installer

Below that reads netinst CD image, with Debian base
[alpha] [arm] [hppa] [i386] [ia64] [m68k] [mips] [mipsel] [powerpc] [sparc

Should I download only the first 3 lines from the left

Alpha then Arm and then hppa

lol thanks for the help

Sorry if the Pm was was confuseing my pm box don't allow me to send messages that have over 20 letters so I'm no sute what you saw anyways here's what I sent, Not sure if the messagew went though or not so I'm posting it here

o the disk/cd-s I have are 700 mb

[blackbelt_jones]

Originally posted by Eejay


I'm not sure if Ubuntu has a CD burner or not, but right now I'm looking at the control panel under Multimedia and see a program named Sound juicer CD ripper' I'm guessing that, thats a CD burner.


No, a ripper is sort of the opposite of a burner. It reads audio from CDs and turns them into data files-- either mp3, wav, or ogg

The program you're looking for is called K3B. I don't know how to get K3B for Ubuntu, but I'm sure it can be done, and I'm sure someone in here can tell you.

Are you hooked up to Ubuntu repositories? Maybe you can

apt-get install k3b

?

I'm not clear about something... are you trying to install Sarge on the desktop or the laptop?

Anyway, my sense is that, if you can get the debian-installer CD, and if you can burn it, this is going to turn out to be much much simpler than you ever imagined.

In Sarge, k3b has to be installed via apt-get, but once it's installed, it turns up in the menu under system tools

[Eejay]

Hello everybody

I went to Debian s website and downloaded the version that is listed below

netinst CD image, with Debian base
[alpha] [arm] [hppa] [i386] [ia64] [m68k] [mips] [mipsel] [powerpc] [sparc]

I only downloaded the !386, ISO, nothing else.
then proceeded to install Debian, filled in the info, etc then when it came time to log on, nothing happened, the screen was black.

I was prompted for the user name and password, I then entered the user name along with the password I created during the installing process, again nothing happened. No desktop, no nothing just a black screen. I have a feeling that somethings missing,

So, I had to install Ubuntu, again, in order to have an OS as well as Internet access

Any ideas on what could have went wrong

Did I perhaps download the wrong ISO, should I have, maybe downloaded all of them, instead of only downloading the one !386-ISO any suggestions will be appreciated