thanks for the suggestion I decided to go the debian way, its actually
much faster than getting the whole iso image at once, I'm downloading it
right now and at the same getting an image of elfstone linux,
way cool,
One thing is that its my first time making the cd and I'm just hoping I'm
downloading everything I need cause I have a 4gig limit a month and it
would suck if i got the wrong thing but as far as I can see right now
everything is going smooth
one thing I was confused about is why are there three different ".list"
files at this location
http://cdimage.debian.org/potato_test-cycle-2_nonUS/
for the i386 potato
I'm downloading the biggest one right now I hope that's right ;)
what do you think?
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> I haven't done a CD download of Potato, but I do use it on almost all my
> hosts. So let me suggest that instead of burning a CD, you try a network
> install, which should go well over a cable hookup.
>
> Just get yourself a set of 5 disk images (rescue.bin, root.bin, and 3
> driver-*.bin) from (for example)
>
> ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/
>
> and use them to do the network install you prefer.
>
> Although Potato is now "frozen", it still gets regular updates to correct
> urgent (mostly security) problems, new kernels as released, and so on. The
> last iso's that I know of are about a month old, making them already a bit
> out of date.
>
> If you need to install to a lot of hosts, you might still do better to
> mirror the Potato archive, using rsync to keep your mirror up to date.
>
> If you really want to burn a CD, the latest Potato iso's are at
> http://linuxiso.org/debian.html
>
> Debian discourages their use, though. If you want to follow the advice of
> the Debian team, you'll follow the procedure described beginning at:
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/
>
> The Debian CD FAQ has information on the actual burning. See
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/faq.html
>
> At 01:32 PM 7/10/00 -0700, Chris Wrobel wrote:
> > Hello everone, I need some help... :)
> > I'm trying to get myself the new Debian Potato distro. That is I want to
> > download it off the internet and use my cd burner to make an istallable
> > cd.
> > Why I need help?? I have never attempted to do this over the internet as I
> > got my cable not that long ago. So can someone tell me what do I need to
> > make such a cd and where I can get the stuff,
>
>
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