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This article is intended for beginners and those looking for tips and tricks to install [http://www.debian.org Debian Etch] in their systems. | This article is intended for beginners and those looking for tips and tricks to install [http://www.debian.org Debian Etch] in their systems. | ||
[http://www.debian.org Debian] is one of the popular and free ( Libre ) distributions of [http://www.gnu.org GNU/Linux]. Etch is the latest [http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/ stable] release and comes in multiple CD or DVD installations. | [http://www.debian.org Debian] is one of the popular and free ( Libre ) distributions of [http://www.gnu.org GNU/Linux]. Etch is the latest [http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/ stable] release and comes in multiple CD or DVD installations. There are also separate CD images available that install the KDE (or Xfce desktop) environment by default at [ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Debian/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r1-i386-kde-CD-1.iso debian-40r1-i386-kde-CD-1.iso] that can be downloaded from the Debian mirrors. | ||
However, users wishing to install alternate desktop environments can easily do so by adding boot parameters: tasks="standard, kde-desktop" for KDE and tasks="standard, xfce-desktop" for Xfce. Note that this will not work when installing from a full CD image without using a network mirror as an additional package source; it will work when using a DVD image or any other installation method. | |||
For the purpose of this installation, it was downloaded in Mumbai, India from a Taiwanese mirror using the following command. | |||
'''wget -c url''' | '''wget -c url''' | ||