On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 11:32:43AM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 10:23:42PM +0800, Andrew Howell wrote: > > Why are the base disks stored on the web pages? > > > > Why don't we just link to the ftp/http archive? > > > Because there is no clean way to have each mirror point to a > different location. The install used to point into ftp.debian.org > but that caused a lot of headaches since newbies couldn't > cope with that.
Okay > The images are fairly static and only take 100MB. If the size > makes a difference, I'd rather see the images on the mirrors > then the Lists-Archives. I find having a closer copy of the list archives and BTS is the most useful thing about mirrored web pages. Andrew -- Andrew Howell Managing Director Informed Technology E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 08 9380 4244 Fax: 08 9380 4354
