All the more reason to have all the 8 DVD images in hand at first. I would rather have more than I need to have to hunt via a network I may not have in place. I have been waiting many years to do this, want to start at the top of the installation manual and work through the process. Karen On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Doug Smith wrote: > When I was experimenting with it a few days ago, I didn't need a lot of cd's. I just used 1. It was the > talkiing installer from > > http://www.debian.org/devel/ > > and it had the information it needed on it to set up everything. I guess it would pull in packages from the > network to get the ones you needed. Then you wouldn't have to have all those discs. > > I only have to say that it will take a very long time to do unless you replace your dsl modem before doing > it, but it should work. > > > > Glad to help > > > > Doug Smith > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >