USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> IIRC, there is a series called base-N.bin in the images
> section of the debian site. For potato there used to be
> 11 such disks (where N=1 to 11). Don't know how many for
> Woody, but you don't need all.
  
Actually, there are 11 base disks in the potato branch, but
none in the woody branch. In fact, I was surprised to find the
directory empty !

> IIRC, there is nothing called basedeb.tgz. There used to be
> a thing called base2_2.tgz or something like that in potato.
> Maybe similar for woody. Never seen a thing called  basedeb
> on debian sites, or on the CDs. I have this  base2_2.tgz on
> the potato CD stacked somewhere. IIRC, it is  about 1.5 mb.

I didn't know anything about basedeb.tgz. The installer itself
said that a package called basedeb.tgz was not found.
 
> You are probably searching at  the wrong place.  In debian,
> the structure is quite standard. It should be under  some-
> thing like:
>
> .../dists/woody/main/disks-i386/2.x.xx.kernel-date/
>
> This kernel-no and kernel-date you need to pick up while
> browsing.


Directory listing ( relevant entries ) in
http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.18-2001-12-21/

 compact/                19-Dec-2001 12:09      - 
 doc/                    01-Jan-2002 08:04      - 
 dosutils/               22-Dec-2001 07:40      - 
 drivers.tgz             19-Dec-2001 12:06   5.2M  GZIP compressed tar ar>
 idepci/                 19-Dec-2001 12:09      - 
 images-1.20/            19-Dec-2001 12:09      - 
 images-1.44/            22-Dec-2001 07:40      - 
 images-2.88/            22-Dec-2001 07:40      - 
 install.bat             19-Dec-2001 12:09     1k 
 kernel-config           19-Dec-2001 12:09    15k 
 lang/                   19-Dec-2001 12:09      - 
 linux                   19-Dec-2001 12:09   982k 
 md5sum.txt              19-Dec-2001 12:09    18k 
 reiserfs/               19-Dec-2001 12:09      - 
 udma100-ext3/           19-Dec-2001 12:09      - 

Relevant entries in images-1.44/ :

  compact/                22-Dec-2001 07:40      - 
 driver-1.bin            19-Dec-2001 12:05   1.4M 
 driver-2.bin            19-Dec-2001 12:05   1.4M 
 driver-3.bin            19-Dec-2001 12:05   1.4M 
 driver-4.bin            19-Dec-2001 12:05   1.4M 
 idepci/                 22-Dec-2001 07:40      - 
 kernel-config           19-Dec-2001 12:09    15k 
 reiserfs/               22-Dec-2001 07:40      - 
 rescue.bin              19-Dec-2001 12:05   1.4M 
 root.bin                19-Dec-2001 12:06   1.4M 
 safe/                   19-Dec-2001 12:09      - 
 udma100-ext3/           22-Dec-2001 07:40      -

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Regards,
Santanu Chatterjee
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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