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Re: Slink CDs - boot floopy images?



Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > Yes, but it's useful to have the md5sums on the cd, to check that the files
> > are not damaged by the cd creation process (think Infomagic)
> 
> Won't the Packages files do for that? On the CDs I'm looking to make,
> there will already be the standard Packages files as copied from the
> archive _and_ the new Packages.cd files for multicd, both of which have

This won't work.  Simply due to slink/main is 750 MB big and the CD
can only contain 650 of them.  Thus the Packages file cannot reflect
the contents of the cd archive.

Regards,

	Joey

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