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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hey Steve,<br>
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In the last few years DVDs have fallen out of favour as a media of
choice for sharing large files and it's likely to be difficult and
not cost effective to obtain them.<br>
<br>
First of all Debian DVD iso doesn't need to be installed from a
DVD drive, you can just dd the image straight onto a usb drive --<br>
<br>
( If you were to download dvd images from here --
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/">https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/</a>)<br>
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$ dd if=debian-9.3.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/usb_physical_device<br>
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Any reasonably recent PC should be able too boot from the image.<br>
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<br>
If you are using debian as a general-purpose desktop it's likely
that you wouldn't even need to use any other dvds as the first DVD
contains most of the software.<br>
Also you can try getting dldvd (dual-layer DVD) and bd (blue-ray
disk images) with jigdo then you'd be able to fit even more
packages on a usb key.<br>
<br>
If you have temporary access to a fast internet connection, you
can create the whole debian mirror using reprepro
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mirrorer.alioth.debian.org/">https://mirrorer.alioth.debian.org/</a>) and various other tools
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Setup">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Setup</a>) storing the files
on a portable harddrive.<br>
<br>
Installing this would work by booting off the first DVD image on
an usb, then connecting & mounting portable harddrive then
giving file url as a sources.list url
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.linuxwave.info/2009/04/adding-local-directory-to-apt.html">http://www.linuxwave.info/2009/04/adding-local-directory-to-apt.html</a>)<br>
<br>
Alex.<br>
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On 03/01/18 09:28, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial"><strong>Greetings To GTALUG,</strong></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I am starting to order the parts
for building a new desktop PC to run debian Linux as primary
operating system. Replacing an ancient Dell desktop PC with MS
Windows XP.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* * *</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* * *</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>I'm looking for a source
for full set of physical debian Linux (LXDE) installation
DVDs (NOT a live install, as I understand that Linux does
not yet support live install with UEFI).</strong></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I need the installation DVDs
because I <u>use a very slow telephone-grade dial-up line
modem for my Internet connection</u>, so a Linux
installation via network is not feasible. (I plan to try to
keep using the dial-up line with the new debian Linux PC, at
least for the first while. GTALUG advice put me on to the idea
of using a USB dial-up modem with Linux.)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Found a U.S.A.-side vendor <a
href="http://www.shoplinuxonline.org" moz-do-not-send="true">www.shoplinuxonline.org</a>
but am concerned about getting caught in snags with payment /
collection of Canadian customs duties, that may be collected
by courier delivering to the Canadian address from U.S.A</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* * *</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* * *</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><strong>Does anyone know of a
Canadian-side online seller of debian Linux (LXDE) DVD
installation sets ??</strong></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I could potentially beg use of a
friend's Windows 10 setup on Bell Fibe, and download the
debian Linux LXDE) DVD image files and burn the DVDs myself,
but I prefer to avoid the hassle and probable mistakes.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Any thoughts from GTALUG members,
on this piddling but potentially messy detail of getting a
full set of debian Linux (LXDE) install DVDs, greatly
appreciated <strong>!!</strong></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Best Regards,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><strong>Steve</strong></font></div>
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