[H-GEN] Debian X files

[Sandra Milne]

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Christopher Biggs wrote:

> needing to suck the whole enchilada off the net, or feeding in the 703
> CDs of the full debian crawling horror from the pit.   (I love debian,
> but there's such a thing as TOO many badly-documented obscure
> packages).

I've only ever needed cd2 for one package (I forget what it was, but it 
was probably some obscure mysql package while we were playing with it a 
few weeks ago) and never needed cd3.

I find that CD1 is all I ever need for a decent installation. 
Occasionally things cannot be found on the cd, but it's quite rare. Our 
stable install on the server only ever asks for the CD 1 (and yes we 
have http sources but they're yet to be required).

The x-window-system is a good idea, and yeah there's a few hiccups with 
installing X ..... or at least there used to be. A recent installation 
of 3.0r1 I did installed all the required files in the first instance. I 
didn't have to race around trying to find packages I needed that hadn't 
been installed. (Like for instance, the X-Server.)

Sandra.
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