[GTALUG] debian Linux -- Installation DVDs Full Set - Shipped To Canadian Destination ??

[o1bigtenor]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Antonio Sun via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> Remember Lennart's comment?
>
> Debian is not 3 DVD images.  It is 14 DVD images or 3 BD images.
>> About 60GB total for the images.
>
>
> The installation disk *might *be 3 DVD images, then you'll face the
> massive update requirement/problem I pointed out earlier, which you need
> all the above 14 DVDs to overcome.
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Clifford Ilkay via talk wrote:
>
>>
>> Solution: install at friend's house. Updates are still going to be an
>> issue, though most updates tend not to be more than a few megs.
>>
>
> Yep, agree, that's the *only *viable/practical choice.
>
> Everything else will give you more trouble than you'd ask for, and no one
> can help, because no one does in those ways.
>
> Sorry - - - one DVD has enough so that I could install everything I
wanted. That was for Debian 9 (present stable). So downloading one DVD of
material IS a viable AND and practical choice if necessity demands it.

Dee
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