DEBIAN

[sheek]

can i do a single cd install of this ?
I'm on a mission to try out every good linux distro and all i have left are debian and stampede....
I plan to just grab the first iso and then apt get what else i need

[Strike]

the first CD is all you "need", but the first three contain all the available binaries (well, last I checked it was the first three)

[manual_overide]

do a "no CD install"

ftp installs are far better, and easier(at least for me) :)

[Ludootje]

Originally posted by manual_overide:
<STRONG>do a "no CD install"

ftp installs are far better, and easier(at least for me) :)</STRONG>
i asked this tons of times, how does an ftp install work? i want to ftp install suse 7.3, i read the ftp readme & the downloadable .doc readme, but i just can't find it, in the ftp readme it tells me to put i-forgot-filename.tar.gz (8mb) on disks, but in the .doc it tells me i need cds.. i really don't get this, could you or anyone else explain me what i have to do to install it/make bootdiscs/bootcds/whatever?

[sheek]

i use direcpc for access .... i think a ftp install will take a lot of time i do not have
plus like lud. i have no idea how to do it

[mrBen]

To do a 'No-CD' install of Debian, all you need is the boot and root disks. You boot into a mini-Linux with those disks, and then use the remote site as the installation media. You just need to make sure that you know how to get your modem/cable connection working.

You should be able to get the fd images from the Debian site. Then use dd to copy the images on to 2 floppys and hey presto!

Hope you've got a quick connection for all that apt-get goodness.

[Syngin]

Originally posted by sheek:
<STRONG>i use direcpc for access .... i think a ftp install will take a lot of time i do not have
plus like lud. i have no idea how to do it</STRONG>

With apt-get, the ftp install is easy. (as long as you can get your nic working) The only hard part is figuring out which packages you need.

say you want to install sendmail. All you would do would be to type:

apt-get install sendmail

It gets the latest install version from the servers you chose in the apt-get setup part during the install, starts up the install and walks you through the configuration.

It'll offer to install any needed dependencies too. :cool:

[Strike]

Actually, last I checked, you are supposed to use dselect to select packages even for an FTP install.

I say supposed to because you can manually install apt and just go from there with the emergency shell if you feel so bold, or if you have a list of packages you need - nothing is cooler than doing a Debian install like this:

apt-get install `cat package-list`

Granted, this takes quite a long time to even figure out the dependencies (since usually my list is around 500 packages or more), but it works (at least, I think I got the right command).

[Strike]

Oh, and by the way the way to get that big package list file is this one-liner followed by a little editing:

COLUMNS=190 dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' &gt; package-list

Then you edit the file deleting the first 5 lines, and joining all the rest of the lines together as one big line (in vi this is 3 keystrokes (d5d) followed by holding down j for a really long time). There's probably a shell script way of doing this, but vi makes it easy enough for me so I haven't taken the time to figure it out.

[slacker_x]

I put a dpkg --get-selections &gt; packages.txt in my cron.daily backup script, so that if my primary hard drive dies, I can just pull all the package list off of the other drive using dpkg --set-selections &lt; packages.txt

:cool: Debian :cool:

[Strike]

Damn, I should have known there would be an easier way of doing it... I had forgotten about --(get|set)-selections for dpkg, guess I'm too pampered with apt :)

[Syngin]

Doh. I stand corrected. :eek: