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Heavens no, no one does a full installation. 

On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 09:35:28AM -0700, hank smith wrote:
> and you need all 14 cds?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh at hhs48.com>
> To: <sdawes at telus.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 9:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Speakup installation
> 
> 
> > No typo. The complete Debian package comes on 14 CD's, that's fourteen,
> > ten plus four, The point being that I simply assumed you would know I
> > meant Debian.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 09:26:51AM -0600, Steve Dawes wrote:
> > > Chuck,
> > >
> > > It isn't quite that bad. Your type'o has suggested that a full install
> is 14
> > > cds. I think you meant to say 4 cds. If you install all source in
> addition
> > > to all the binaries, you end up with 7 or 8 cds or 2 dvds.
> > >
> > > The problem I have with the selecting everything, or doing the full
> install,
> > > is that it is the easy way out. Yes it works, but it installs a lot of
> > > unnecessary stuff and uses up a lot of resources. A good case in point
> is
> > > that it installs both kde and gnome.
> > > Additionally, it doesn't install absolutely everything as it implies, it
> > > installs almost everything on the binary disks and you need to install
> the
> > > source separately if you wish to. This approach also does nothing in
> > > teaching how to set up a system with only the packages you need and
> want.
> > >
> > > If you are only going to be using console based programs, there is no
> need
> > > to install any of the kde or gnome packages. It is incredible how much
> space
> > > can be saved when you take this approach.
> > >
> > > Now I am not knocking the installation howto that Janina has written. I
> am
> > > saying that what it does is a quick and easy install that gets the first
> > > time user up-and-running on Linux. What I would like to see however, is
> > > something that tells the user where they can find out more information
> on
> > > how to trim down their installation to only the packages they are going
> to
> > > use included in the howto. A simple reference to the Linux document page
> 
> > > does nothing to direct a new or novice user to good information about
> > > creating a smaller or tidier installation.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > Steve Dawes
> > > Calgary Canada.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> > --
> > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (85% of Full)
> > But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
> >
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> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
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-- 
The Moon is Waning Gibbous (85% of Full)
But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh




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