On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 04:55:12PM +1000, Rodos wrote:
> Anyone know of a mirror of cdimage.debian.org? I have been trying to
> connect to it but it keeps timing out. I have looked on
> mirror.aarnet.edu.au but cant seam to find any cd images to
> download. Looking for potatoe.

mirroring of straight cd images is a little unpopular, so debian have
come up with a kickass way of distributing them.

go to http://cdimage.debian.org/ and follow the instructions


just because its such a good idea, here's the gist:

download a script, which does the following:

get packages from your local package mirror

append the .deb's in the same order as they appear in the .iso

rsync the difference between your appended file, and an "official"
.iso (ie, the iso9660 bits) from one of a list of servers. only ~6Mb
download!

the script then walks your through setting up an rsync server, so you
too can offer the official iso's.



i plan on having a cd set of the latest potato (+non-US) at the
installfest (i'll leave it as late as i can to burn it).

-- 
 - Gus


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