Thanks for that link. Can you tell me how many iso's I need to download before I can start installing?

Wolfgang

On 07/09/12 13:50, Daniel Lawson wrote:

Hi Wolfgang

You are by no means restricted to using Unity with Ubuntu. Not only are there several alternatives (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc) which you can either install from scratch with a CD, or on your existing system by installing the xubuntu-desktop or kubuntu-desktop metapackages, but you can also run whatever window manager you prefer to use.   You definitely don't need to change distributions to change the environment!

That said, if you want to download Debian, I'd just get the iso from the canonical source:  http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#stable

There are no NZ debian iso mirrors that I know of, and other than it perhaps taking a bit longer to download, you aren't really disadvantaged by getting it from elsewhere.

If you want a Wheezy iso, I think you'll need to get one of the debian-testing iso images, eg http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/