On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:42:18PM -0700, Admin wrote: > Andrei Popescu > > Thanks for your reply. Hope you don't have to snip too much. My yet > outstanding question is the POOL directory. I think the POOL directory > contains 'sarge' which would be the latest official release. But I am > not sure. > The "pool" contains packages for stable / testing / unstable all together. If you install Stable, the release package list pulls the package versions used from stable from the pool, Testing pulls testing and so on.
> But everyone seems to get distracted about me wanting a local LAN > mirror of source and binanry. Granted that a dial up connection and > especially a dial up connection that is shared between several machines > is going to take forever (I estimate over 200 days -- maybe longer if it > keeps dropping connections on big ORIG files and then starting over). > The packages are put on the CD's / DVD's in popularity order these days. The first two CD's or the first DVD (worth 7 CD's) will possibly be all you require. > > I have been looking for a Canadian source of these 14 CDs -- one that > uses the Debian authorized images. There are Linux user groups in Canada - there are even Debian developers.You could try asking your nearest LUG which has fast network connection to download you one disk and mail it to you. > > At the present time I do not have a machine on which to run DEBIAN. So, > I use live CDs or DVDs which claim to also install the entire > distribution but I know from experience that 4 or 5 DVDs are required in > order to get the whole show -- all 14 or 15. So one LIVE DVD is not 14 CDs. > One DVD is 6 or 7 CDs. > I had reserved about 200 Gig of space on the C_drv of my busiest > machine (XP Pro machine with Pentium 3) for DEBIAN running in > conjunction with Xen the virtual machine. But I did not partition or > format this empty space and I cannot get any partition facility to > recognize that the empty disk space even exists. Instead, these > facilities think that this big disk is just 22 Gig and there is no other > space. If you or anyone else knows of a facility that can reclaim this > empty space then please let me know. Otherwise, DEBIAN will have to wait > for the new machine or go dual boot on one still at the computer > hospital recovering from a faulty disk and slow service. I am > considering an Intel dual core BUT I DON'T KNOW IF DEBIAN WILL RUN ON > SUCH A MACHINE?????? > Of course it will. You can use either the i386 (32 bit) distribution or the amd64 (64 bit) version on such a machine. On 64 bit / brand new hardware I would be tempted to go straight to an install of Etch, which is currently the Debian testing release - it will be released as a stable version sometime in the next few months in all probability. > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:28:25 -0700 > >Archive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >[huge snip] > > > >The entire Debian archive is ~205 GB. You do *not* want to download > >that over a slow connection. > > Full ack - with a 2MB line, it took me about ten days to download it. Hope this helps, Andy > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]