4.29 CD or DVD ROM Distribution
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The available CD and DVD ROMs for Debian include the main distribution, which is a self contained install, and the network installer, netinst. Netinst distributions are Debian CDs with a bare installer. The base OS and any additional packages you choose to install are downloaded from a Debian mirror. (netinst) CD-ROM. Other CPU specific CD-ROMs (e.g., the Sparc 3.0 srage CD-ROM) are also available from Debian. The disk images can be obtained from, for example, http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian-cd/ and similar archives (this Australian mirror is only available to Australian hosts). For CD-ROM only installations you may need to obtain multiple CD-ROMs, although even with DVDs this is starting to spill over two DVDs. For the netinst approach the CD-ROM images are generally around 100MB.
Grab the disk image from a web site and burn to CD or DVD (preferably using an RW format!):
A good approach is to use the netinst approach—the base packages are provided on one CD-ROM and from there the rest of the system is installed, as required, over the network.
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