At 10:00 PM 7/29/00 -0400, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, you could download the floppy disk images and then just use apt to complete the install over the Internet. That's how I installed on this very machine I'm typing on. CDs do make it easier, though. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>
I need CDs because the computer on which I plan to install Debian (home) is not the same as the computer with the fast net connection (work). I did manage to work around the pseudo-image-kit(Windows) problem: created a 1-byte target file (potato-i386-1.raw) and then ran the rsync program, which worked just fine, exact command: rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192 aurolinux.mit.edu::potato_test-cycle-3/i386/potato-i386-1.raw . As the documentation of the pseudo-image kit explains, you really only need "rsync". The reason to first run "make-pseudo-image" (pointing to any Debian package mirror) and then "rsync" (pointing to a Debian CD image mirror) is just to shift most of the download work from the CD image servers to the package servers (thus reducing network traffic on the CD image servers). Further, the first binary CD (for each architecture) is now available on the main Debian ftp site, presumably to encourage wider testing: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/potato_test-cycle-3/ Lawrence H. Robins Ceramics Division Natl. Inst. of Stds. and Tech. 100 Bureau Dr., Stop 8522 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8522 Tel: 301-975-5263 FAX: 301-975-5334 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]