Hello Theo, I totally hear you! I am coming from a similar place. Boredom is not the best motivation though becuase we will want you to stay around ;-)
'debian-user' correct me if I am wrong. There is actually three CDs. Only CD 1 is required, actually you can get the system installed with just 3 floppies. The thing is there are a lot of choices of pkgs -- all "free". RH and others bundle non-"free". My suggest, if adventurous ;-) is make the floppies (or the ISO), getting the Debian installed and then 'apt-get' the packages off of the net. That way you will get the newest and greatest -- ie. the "securist". One interesting thing to note is r4 was released today. Best regards, Lloyd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Theo Bierman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 9:50 AM Subject: Re: CD Image creation > > Hi > > Thanks for all the help, I'm bursting I want to use debian so bad, redhat is > boring me now..:) > > So I can just hop onto that site donwload binary-i386-1.iso and then write > that to a CD? But isn't debian part of two CDs? So if I write it will the CD > software extract all the relevant directories? So I suppose I should download > binary-i386-1.iso and binary-i386-2.iso. > > Thanks > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 06:09:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello Theo, > > > > Assuming that you ran 'rsync' and not 'sync', I tested > > the command you ran and that should have been successful. > > I used > > aurolinux.mit.edu::debian-cd/ > > I would suggest if you still cannot get it, if you have > > the bandwidth download the ISO from linuxiso. It will > > save you so much pain. > > > > Best regards, > > Lloyd > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Theo Bierman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 1:23 AM > > Subject: Re: CD Image creation > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > Thanks for the help, really appreciate it: > > > > > > I ran this command : > > > > > > sync -v --progress --stats -B=8192 > > > ftp.sunet.se::pub/Linux/distributions/debian-iso/2.2_rev3/i386/binary-i386-1.iso > > > . > > > > > > and I got this : > > > > > > loating point exception (core dumped) > > > > > > what was the path that you used: > > > > > > was it : > > > ftp.sunet.se::pub/Linux/distributions/debian-iso/2.2_rev3/i386/binary-i386-1.iso > > > . > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 07:56:21AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > That looks like the right path, though I do not see that host > > > > as being listed in http://cdimage.debian.org/rsync-mirrors.html > > > > I do not know if it is only ftp & http, but the images on uk.debian > > > > are password protected. You are doing the right thing, > > > > try one of the sites listed on rsync-mirrors.html > > > > > > > > If you plan on making the other CDs, I was very successful > > > > (fast download) just grabbing the ISOs from www.Linuxiso.org > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Lloyd Budd > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Theo Bierman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > > > > Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 5:23 AM > > > > Subject: CD Image creation > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi All > > > > > > > > > > I am battling creating my cd image. I have done my : > > > > > > > > > > make-pseudo-image <listfile> <server base directory> > > > > > > > > > > That went fine, however when i run: > > > > > > > > > > rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192 > > > > > server.somewhere.org::debian-cd/2.1/i386/binary-i386-1.iso . > > > > > > > > > > I run into trouble. The actual command I run is : > > > > > > > > > > rsync -v --progress -B=8192 > > > > > www.uk.debian.org::debian-cd/cd-images/2.2_rev3/i386/binary-i386-1.iso > > > > > . > > > > > > > > > > I get an error : > > > > > > > > > > link_stat /cd-images/2.2_rev3/i386/binary-i386-1.iso : No such file > > > > > or directory client: nothing to do > > > > > > > > > > Does this mean I am putting in the wrong path to binary-i386-1.iso, > > > > > should this be pointed to the one on my machine that I have just > > > > > created? > > > > > __________________________________________________________ Get your FREE personalized e-mail at http://www.canada.com
