Quoting eric pareja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > For those of you who use Debian (at least the i386 arch), we have a > mirror of Debian main/contrib/non-free at UPM (available through ETPI > routing). The appropriate apt sources.list entry is as follows: > > deb http://bulkan.upm.edu.ph/debian woody main contrib non-free > > potato, woody and sid are available.
Just for fun, some non-conventional ways to get started: Here's a set of installation floppy images for woody/3.0 with 2.4.x kernels, support for XFS and ReiserFS filesystems, software RAID, and LVM: http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/ (After an installation with XFS, you may be best advised to replace your XFS driver and support code from CVS checkout, according to this article: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs10.html) Experimental (a/o 2002-04) installation-floppy images for woody/3.0 with kernel 2.4, ReiserFS, ext3fs, newer network & IDE cards and USB support: http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/woody/main/ Another set of bleeding-edge woody/3.0 floppies: http://people.debian.org/~aph/boot-floppies-woody/ Current woody/3.0 floppy-images for i386 using 2.4 kernel (includes ext3: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/bf2.4/ 3.0/woody "netinst" images (about 30 MB): http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ netinst includes an "alternate boot image" named bf2.4 to use a 2.4 kernel (and ext3 support), but your motherboard must support the El Torito "Alternate Boot Image" spec for this to work. If the netinst CD boots directly to the syslinux screen, without showing a menu of boot-image choices, then your motherboard lacks this support. The woody/3.0 netinst ISO images provide installation kernels, drivers, partitioning utilities, and the dbootstrap program, which must be able to retrieve the Debian Base and subsequent packages from the network. I don't yet know of prebuilt installation floppies supporting IBM's JFS journaled filesystem, but JFS utilities are available in woody/3.0 or sid/unstable, as package "jfsutils". Documentation on JFS is available here: http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs/ You could migrate a Debian system to JFS using the general technique I used for XFS before there were such thing as XFS-supporting installation floppies: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/xfs-conversion Progeny Graphical Installer can be used to do graphical or console installs of woody/3.0 (on i386 and ia64) : http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/ -- Cheers, Live Faust, die Jung. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
