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Re: installer docs?

2001-10-12 Thread Wookey
On Thu 11 Oct, wackode .! wrote: Hi guys where can I find some documentation abaut creating some potato/modifed CD's? The debian-cd package has a reasonably helpful doc on this, although it's primarily about how to build normal CDs with some mentions of what to change for your own

Re: Debian ISO (Was: Re: [PLUG] RedHat 7.1 iso?)

2001-10-12 Thread Wookey
On Wed 10 Oct, Ben Collins wrote: I've brought this up before. I went to go get an ISO, and was presented with 50 questions about what I intended to do with it, and what type of person I was. It's rediculous, regardless of the issue it is trying to solve. I sympathise, but any suggestion of

Re: Debian ISO (Was: Re: [PLUG] RedHat 7.1 iso?)

2001-10-12 Thread Ted Cabeen
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Blars Blarson writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (5) Download the ISO : a burden on servers, even with mirrors, and to be avoided in preference to (3) or (4) if you -must- have CDs. One question I have about the whole pseudo-image thing:

Re: Debian ISO (Was: Re: [PLUG] RedHat 7.1 iso?)

2001-10-12 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Wookey wrote: On Wed 10 Oct, Ben Collins wrote: I've brought this up before. I went to go get an ISO, and was presented with 50 questions about what I intended to do with it, and what type of person I was. It's rediculous, regardless of the issue it is trying to

Re: Debian ISO (Was: Re: [PLUG] RedHat 7.1 iso?)

2001-10-12 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Ted Cabeen wrote: It doesn't save bandwidth on the clients. It saves bandwith on the servers. There are a lot more debian mirrors than there are debian-cd mirrors, and they're a lot better distributed as well. The rsync just blends the downloaded packages into a

Re: Debian ISO (Was: Re: [PLUG] RedHat 7.1 iso?)

2001-10-12 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Philip Charles wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Ted Cabeen wrote: It doesn't save bandwidth on the clients. It saves bandwith on the servers. There are a lot more debian mirrors than there are debian-cd mirrors, and they're a lot better distributed as well. The rsync

Re: Debian ISO (Was: Re: [PLUG] RedHat 7.1 iso?)

2001-10-12 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: At the moment there is no problem with downloading Debian iso images, but when woody is released ... Well, that is usually solvable quite good with a primary site that only allows other mirrors to connect. After those 10-20 mirrors or so

Re: Debian ISO (Was: Re: [PLUG] RedHat 7.1 iso?)

2001-10-12 Thread jason andrade
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: Speaking as a cd image mirror admin: Yes. what you said. Checking the list of mirrors europe seems to have enough mirrors to provide easy http/ftp downloads. I don't know enough about the bandwidth situation in US or Australia though. yes -

Re: Debian ISO (Was: Re: [PLUG] RedHat 7.1 iso?)

2001-10-12 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: I know the problem, I'm already working on getting the filesystem big enough to handle it. And if you know you are topologically close to another mirror with lots of bandwidth that has them, it should take more than a couple of hours to one day

Re: Debian ISO (Was: Re: [PLUG] RedHat 7.1 iso?)

2001-10-12 Thread Simon Lyall
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Philip Charles wrote: At the moment there is no problem with downloading Debian iso images, but when woody is released ... The main download sites (not just the ISO ones) especially us.debian.org do get clogged up when new releases (and sometimes security updates) come

Re: Mark Montague: success report with sparc and hppa cd images (with minor issues)

2001-10-12 Thread Brian White
I filed a bug on tasksel for this, but that was the wrong place. It's actually a message from update-mime. The problem is that these packages are not supposed to depend on mime-support, and just call update-mime if it exists. apt-get does all the installations, then goes back and does all the