Hi Keith, As you may be aware, there was another suggestion recently to issue a mini-debian on CD with a magazine. I did some work on that project and solved the problems of making a workable distribution which took up approx 20 Mb of CD space. So if you have 100 Mb available on a CD you can pick another 80 Mb of packages.
There were no dependancy problems and running dselect was a walk in the park. With my approach the readers can upgrade easily to a full Debian by ftp, NFS or purchasing a CDROM. If I can help, let me know. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486 modem +61 8 9364-9832 32S, 116E =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Keith Beattie wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm in the process of writing an article about installing Linux (using > Debian) and hope to have a compatible mini Debian distribution on the > CD that comes with the magazine. I've looked, but can't seem to find > info on the policy and details on creating non-official distributions. > > This isn't a review, it's a how-to article. I'm hoping that this will > give Linux, Debain and the concept a freely available software some > good exposure, so I'd appreciate any help on getting this to go > smoothly. (It's my first article and plan to make a donation to the > cause afterwards once they pay me.) > > Thanks, > Keith > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .