Re: rsync vs FTP/HTTP

2001-05-07 Thread jason andrade
On 7 May 2001, Daniel Garcia wrote: As I sit here creating my ISO image using rsync I think, Why don't all the debian mirrors simply carry the ISO image instead of the file distribution? Most *NIX implementations have a method to mount an ISO image as a filesystem, like a loopback mount. So

Re: cd label

2001-05-07 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Will Holcomb wrote: I worked up a cd label for the 2.2rev2 discs and put it on the web at: http://odin.himinbi.org/covers/index.html I think they look kinda nice. Agreed ;-) I've added your site to the list. It seems the debian text on your labels comes from a

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-05-07 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Bernd Hentig wrote: Well, nowadays 700 MB CD-R are even cheaper than 650 MB, so I really don't mind. Is there any *real* reason why the 650 MB limit is still kept ? I mean, 700 MB CD-R can be read by all modern CDROM drives except 1x/2x proprietary drives from about

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-05-07 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On 26 Apr 2001, Mark Eichin wrote: I'd agree with keeping the standard limit (though if the automation eventually got to the point where you could just feed it a media size paramater, that would rock for building zip, jaz, orb, 700M-cd, flash-card, or other install images. There are a

Re: Using Sony CD Extreme to burn .iso images from Windows

2001-05-07 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, John Baillie wrote: The Sony CD Extream Build 2.0.723 handles ISO images easily. From the File menu, choose New Job Then select Global-Image or Other Image. This opens up the CD creation setup GUI, from there manualy enter the path to the .iso image or browse...

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-05-07 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 7 May 2001, J.A. Bezemer wrote: Few people are aware that many of our old machines have ended up in developing countries, esp. through the many partnerships that schools/ universities have with similar institutions there. From what I've heard, Linux is quite popular there, because it

Re: Iso CD

2001-05-07 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, LACOMBE Arnaud wrote: Hi, I found the binarys' ISO for the Potato 2.2r3 at : http://cdimage.debian.org/cd-images/2.2_rev3/i386 but there isn't the sources' ISO. Where can I found them ? http://cdimage.debian.org/cd-images/2.2_rev3/source/ But please check

Re: unimaging cd images

2001-05-07 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Aaron Walker wrote: I have my debian .iso images and I am wanting to unimage them and put them on my computer so that I can install debian on a computer over the LAN. What program (for winblows since I don't have linux installed yet) can I use to unimage these ISO

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-05-07 Thread Wookey
On Mon 07 May, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Philip Charles am Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:26:07PM +: I have just used up the last of a batch of 700 MB discs and I will not be using them again. Uhm - how do you measure the quality of a CDR? I'm also a small vendor, and use cheap (?

Re: Re-re-rsync vs. batch ftp

2001-05-07 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Thu, 3 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a local copy of 2.2r2 and I'm using (or should I say, 'attempting to use') pik2 under win98 to upgrade my image to 2.2r3 for burning. The pseudo-image portion of the pik2 works fine; my problem is with rsync. For various reasons, my

Re: pseudo image kit problems

2001-05-07 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Sat, 5 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The binary-i386-1_NONUS.list at http://www.uk.debian.org/debian-cd/cd-images includes /doc/FAQ/html/ that doesn't exists anymore (now there is a /doc/FAQ/debian-faq.html.tar.gz file instead) As explained in the README, missing files are no

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-05-07 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Philip Charles am Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:26:07PM +: I have just used up the last of a batch of 700 MB discs and I will not be using them again. Uhm - how do you measure the quality of a CDR? I'm also a small vendor, and use