On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 03:49:31PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Looking at the distribution links, when might we expect a ISO image > download for us that want to "Kick" tie tires ??
Downloading the Debian ISO image doesn't make a lot of sense IMHO (on all architectures). You have to download six or seven ISO images with a lot of packages that you're never going to use. Even if you are going to install almost all packages you don't save anything from directly mirroring the .deb archives instead. The contents of the CDs are the same for all architectures. As most users are going to use Debian on a desktop PC, CD 1 contains KDE, Gnome, Mozilla and multimedia software - not necessarily the packages you might want to install on an S/390. Even worse for S/390, you can't directly access a CD-ROM from Linux/390 (it might work with SCSI over FCP, I've not tested this). So you would have to copy the contents of the CD images to an HTTP or FTP server which can then be accessed from your S/390. So downloading, burning and then copying the CDs is even more work. You can save a bit of work by mounting the ISO images using the Linux loopback driver but the unpatched loopback kernel driver is limited to 8 mountpoints. I recommend using one of the 250 Debian mirrors for installation. If you don't have Internet access from your S/390 create a local mirror on a PC and install from it using HTTP. Regards, Stefan Gybas
