Hi, I downloaded the rest of the distribution today (non-us and contrib). I compared all the files in the binary-all and the binary-i386 trees (since I have NT at work, it was downloaded into two different trees) and my conclusion is that most of the files are identical (I deleted those on the binary-all tree) some are newer on the -all tree and some are newer on the -i386 tree (I kept both versions).
I will burn it on two CDs, one will have the main tree ,the disks-i386 and the lates kernel. The other will have non-free, contrib, non-us and some other useful programs (such as pine and netscape. BTW: There are some more space, do you have any suggestions?). I didn't download the source code since in this days I hardly have time to type my one code, I can't afford to read and play with oneone elses' code... (I plan to become a debian developer (or maintainer) after the spring (this) semester, when I'll have more time) Liran Zvibel. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 15:43:02 +0300 (GMT+0300) From: Liran Zvibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peter Paluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: burning hamm on CD. It is NT here. I am going to delete the identical files, my question is, whether to delete from binary-all or from binary-i386. TIA, Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ On Thu, 21 May 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: > Hello, > ====== > > > Hi, > > I downloaded the Hamm/main at work, the problem is that the size of the > > tree is about 760 MB. I want to burn it to CD, but it won't fit. > > > > I noticed that a lot of packages are identical in the binary-0i386 and > > binary-all, can I remove the identical ones from the binary-all? > > What software did you use to download the Debian distribution tree? As far > as I know there are no identical packages in the binary-i386 and in the > binary-all, but there are just symbolical links from binary-i386 to > binary-all. It is possible that your ftp software doesn't know symbolical > links and instead of making them it downloaded the files twice - once in > the binary-i386 and once in the binary-all. > > This is going to be problem in non-Linux systems as they cannot make any > symbolical links. > > It is also possible that you simply counted sizes of those files twice, and > that you _have_ those symbolic links. But I wonder. > > I will be very happy if somebody from this list answers to this problem. > > All the very best, > Peter > > ********************************* > * Peter Paluch * > * Kukucinova 939/35 * > * 024 01 Kysucke Nove Mesto * > * Slovakia, Europe * > * ----------------------------- * > * tel: +421 826 421 2542 * > * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > ********************************* > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
