Well, I am considering the possibility of using my work internet access to create a mirror, and then hooking my machine to the mirror in disk to transfer it to my potato system. My question is: What's the best way of mirroring from a windows machine, may be rsync provided in the pseudo-image kit for windows? But it seems to me that it will not function. Any ideas? Thanks, AR. "J.A. Bezemer" wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Philip Charles wrote: > > > Could someone tell me what the "pool" directory is about? Is it necessary > > to mirror it? I see that non-US has established it and it is obviously > > going to take a lot of disk space. > > If you use rsync to mirror, you don't have to mirror pool/ if you use the > --copy-unsafe-links option. At least, that's possible as long as symlinks in > the "regular" tree exist (which I suppose will continue to be the case for > potato). In the future, pool/ is supposed to contain everything from stable to > unstable for all architectures, so mirroring specific portions of the archive > will get a bit harder. Also see > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0011/msg01827.html > > Regards, > Anne Bezemer > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
