Re: broken link on etchnhalf installation notes page
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 01:41:21PM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> 1.
> This page http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/etchnhalf
>
> contains this link
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0r4/i386/iso-cd/debian-4.0r4etchnhalf-i386-netinst.iso
>
> which at present (Mon Jul 28 03:20:59 UTC 2008) goes nowhere (returns
> http error code 404).
> Poking around cdimage.debian.org/ suggests that there is a mistake in the
> path - ie it should not be debian-cd/4.0r4/ but debian-cd/4.0_r4.
> That directory exists, but it is empty at present.
The directory now contains all the exptected ISO.
Thanks for the notice about 4.0r4 / 4.0_r4, the fix is applied and will
be visible within a few hours.
> 2.
> It seems like the links to business card isos are pointing to a different
> release -
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-LennyBeta2-i386-businesscard.iso
>
> and the links to the netboot images a different place again -
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/
> (the images in hd-media/ and netboot/ are dated 2008-05-23T11:33)
>
> While it may be that this point release is using the 'lenny' installer
> (a great advance, I might add), is it planned that these links will be
> made consistent?
I don't know, and that is strange given they are businesscard ISOs and
netboot for 4.0_r4 as well..
Regards,
--
Simon Paillard
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