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From: audilover at speedfactory.net (Raylynn Knight)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:41:52 -0500
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On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 16:37 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > I'd like to know why Debian is a 14 CD install !?!?!?!?!
> 
It's not a 14 CD install.  Those 14 CD's contain the the binaries for
multiple architectures to include at least ia32, m68k, sparc, ppc and
mips that I can recall.

> Simply because some (few?) people want *everything* all at once.  I 
> think most people use the Debian net-install CD (one small CD iso) that 
> does a base install and then only downloads the extra things you want/need.
> 
You are correct.  Most with experience with Debian and a reasonably good
net connection use the net-install CD.

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