“Three days ago, I installed Frugalware 0.8. As the speed and
the availability of the repositories is not always stellar, I
decided to download the DVD1 and to install everything on it. I
supposed this would give me the ‘feeling of bloatedness,’ something
close to what you get when you install openSUSE and select
everything.“I noticed that the DVD2 is never asked for, no matter what you
select during the installation. I guess it’s really only for when
you don’t have an Internet connection and you want to install extra
packages from a local source…”
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