That would work for most cases, but most of my clients do not allow access to the outside world on the mainframes..... so Im stuck creating CD's and using a intranet ftp server I have setup.... Ken
At 02:43 PM 7/23/2002 +0200, you wrote: >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
