I have a limited internet connection. So I will need to find internet cafes and grab whole damn thing (which is what, 100gb?) I think I saw 4 BDs for past releases, but I cannot find a mirror that has BDs for Bookworm. But perhaps I’m looking in the wrong place… it’s often quite non-intuitive to navigate. I looked here:
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/installer-amd64/current/images/
and here:
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/binary-amd64/
The docs:
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/ch04s02.en.html#where-files
I just see small files. No ISOs. I’m not just after the Debian system, but all official packages as well. In principle I would want an installer and a separate disk that is all DEB files, but IIRC the only way to easily get a full set is to get the BD ISOs… maybe via torrent, not sure. I have no optical drive, so I guess I would put the ISOs on a drive and mount them.
I know it’s theoretically possible to go through the list of apps I need and find out which CDs they are on, but I looked at just Libre Office and LaTeX and noticed the files for these packages were scattered all over the place. So it really seems impossibly complex and I get the impression I will likely need every single CD anyway.
Yes, they exist - kinda.
Here is the clarification:
Only the first few images are available! Where are the rest?
We don’t store/serve the full set of ISO images for all architectures, to reduce the amount of space taken up on the mirrors. You can use the jigdo tool to recreate the missing ISO images instead.
