At 10:00 PM 7/29/00 -0400, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, you could download the floppy disk images and then just use apt
to complete the install over the Internet. That's how I installed on
this very machine I'm typing on. CDs do make it easier, though.
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Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum
http://dm.net
I need CDs because the computer on which I plan to install Debian
(home) is not the same as the computer with the fast net connection
(work).
I did manage to work around the pseudo-image-kit(Windows) problem:
created a 1-byte target file (potato-i386-1.raw) and then ran
the rsync program, which worked just fine, exact command:
rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192
aurolinux.mit.edu::potato_test-cycle-3/i386/potato-i386-1.raw .
As the documentation of the pseudo-image kit explains, you really
only need rsync. The reason to first run make-pseudo-image
(pointing to any Debian package mirror) and then rsync (pointing
to a Debian CD image mirror) is just to shift most of the
download work from the CD image servers to the package servers
(thus reducing network traffic on the CD image servers).
Further, the first binary CD (for each architecture) is now
available on the main Debian ftp site, presumably to encourage
wider testing:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/potato_test-cycle-3/
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