Re: Article on Linux and non-official dist.
From: Keith Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've looked, but can't seem to find info on the policy and details on creating non-official distributions. It's fine with us. In fact, you can duplicate the Official Debian 1.3.1 2-CD Set if you want - we put the ISO 9660 master CD images online at the sites listed at the end of this message, just make a label and press 'em. We don't ask for any money for this. If you prefer to make your own CD, install the boot-floppies package and the debian-cd package. Then talk to me, I'm one of the experts on making Debian CDs and I want to make sure your CD doesn't have any common mistakes that would make us look bad. Make sure your CD is bootable, make sure it installs pppd and man, make sure people can get to our FTP sites and get the rest of the system. Thanks Bruce These are FTP sites where you can currently find the Debian GNU/Linux Official 2-CD Set. To add a site, please send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . U.S.: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/distributions/debian/OfficialCDH. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.S.: ftp://ftp.debian.org/OfficialCD Greg Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Germany: ftp.uni-erlangen.de:/pub/Linux/Official-Debian-CDs Roman Hodek [EMAIL PROTECTED] also NFS-mountable (read-only) as /public/pub/Linux/Official-Debian-CDs U.K.: ftp://ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/operating-systems/Linux/debian/OfficialCD Lee McLoughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hungary: ftp://silver.drk.hu/pub/debian_cd/ Robert Nemkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Japan: ftp://ftp.kc.chuo-u.ac.jp/pub/Linux/OfficialCD/ Atsushi KAMOSHIDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Article on Linux and non-official dist.
Hi Keith, As you may be aware, there was another suggestion recently to issue a mini-debian on CD with a magazine. I did some work on that project and solved the problems of making a workable distribution which took up approx 20 Mb of CD space. So if you have 100 Mb available on a CD you can pick another 80 Mb of packages. There were no dependancy problems and running dselect was a walk in the park. With my approach the readers can upgrade easily to a full Debian by ftp, NFS or purchasing a CDROM. If I can help, let me know. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486modem +61 8 9364-9832 32S, 116E =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Keith Beattie wrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of writing an article about installing Linux (using Debian) and hope to have a compatible mini Debian distribution on the CD that comes with the magazine. I've looked, but can't seem to find info on the policy and details on creating non-official distributions. This isn't a review, it's a how-to article. I'm hoping that this will give Linux, Debain and the concept a freely available software some good exposure, so I'd appreciate any help on getting this to go smoothly. (It's my first article and plan to make a donation to the cause afterwards once they pay me.) Thanks, Keith -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
