Re: Potato test CDs
I'll openly admit I'm one of the idiots that downloaded an ISO or few. I'm
open to being enlightened, however. I only run potato at home - and the
Internet connection is a modem. I do have a nice connection at work, but
no Linux box. Just a Windows laptop that I can transfer large amounts of
data to and from work.
If there is some way in which I can use the image kit to update my potato
CDs from a Windows machine, please tell me! It is my understanding that I
*can* do this with "official" images.
You may be asking why I don't just do a apt-get dist-upgrade from home.
Well, I do, unless it's very large. So it's nice to do it from a CD-RW
that I've freshly made.
Is the README for the Pseduo-Image kit posted anywhere easily visible
http://cdimage.debian.org? It explained quite a bit to me that I was
unaware of - more info than in the FAQ or menus. I think this should
really be up front for us to read. If it is, well, I guess I didnt look
hard enough.
Finally, I originally discovered the Potato images for the Hungary site on
freshmeat.net. It pointed me right to the ISO directory - I can't recall
if I was given any hints on the image kit whatsoever. I would imagine
many of the downloaders of the big files are in the same boat.
So forgive any criticism or bandwidth or stupidity on my part. Feeding of
knowledge is welcome.
-Doug
dbaker@connix.com
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Attila Nagy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > Right. And especially when you're the only one offering images, you don't want
> > to be overloaded with 650MB requests that can easily be reduced to <10MB.
> You are right, but there are some people who want to use vindowz or
> something similar (don't ask what is that :).
>
> But you are completely right. rsync is a great tool.
>
> > Besides, these images are "meant only" for Debian testers, who "are supposed
> > to" understand the workings of pseudo-image/rsync, and know that that's much
> > faster and highly efficient.
> :) I have to give you right again.
>
> > But people are inventive, and I think you'll see some HTTP/FTP downloads even
> > though that's not advertised on the webpage...
> Hmm. You are a genius :)
> There were 181 gigabytes of downloads on FTP last month (1999
> december) and only around 10 gigabytes downloads with rsync. The latter
> means the downloaded file's size, not the traffic.
>
> I think if I could help one people with making such an image it was worth
> the work with it. (my bad english again, sorry :)
>
> In Hungary the potato image is very popular, it fights for the number one
> place only with the mandrake-devel CD (a homebrew CD again:).
> The third one is always the official debian CD-set, so I think I've done
> good job :)
>
> Just an interesting fact: from the FTPd logs the fourth most popular CD is
> netbsd. Interesting I think :)
>
> Anne and all the list members: I have to thank you the link on the
> cdimage.debian.org.
>
> It makes me very happy :)
>
> ps: I live from traffic and downloaders. If nobody downloads nothing,
> the site is not as busy as now then I have to close it.
>
> I have got this network link just because our link was too slow to handle
> such a traffic, so if our traffic will be under the capacity of our line
> the site moves back :(
>
> So I love FTP, because it generates traffic. I know that is bad (I am
> fighting for big proxies everywhere to save Hungary's international
> bandwidth) but this is my only chance...
>
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