[nmglug] Linux Distributions

[Karl Hegbloom]

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 12:44 -0700, Mark Galassi wrote:
>     Karl> You can install Ubuntu or Debian with only 1 CD.  You don't
>     Karl> need to download 3 CD's in order to install it.
> 
> Another nice thing is that Debian has 100meg and even smaller
> net-install CDs that only offer the installer and take all other
> packages from the net.
> 
> The sad thing (see a thread from a while ago) is that if you just go
> to http://www.debian.org/ you find the stupid 14-CD (or 15-CD?) image
> set unless you hunt really hard for the netinst CD image.

A bug should be filed on that.  I will do it now if I find the situation
to be as you describe.