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Re: 2.2 CD images appearing



> We had just that when slink was released, and we decided that was "not
> optimal".

oh well.  was this because of feedback i.e people without a clue looking
at the sitelist, downloading and then having no idea what to do ?

> I've changed it to "all except arm" instead ;-)

ta.


> http://www.une.edu.au/its/nsg.htm still mentiones it; may be down temporarily.

still down as of today.

> > Perth - ftp up, 2.2 not available yet (except for beta)
> > Sydney - ftp up, 2.2 not available yet
> 
> 2.2_rev0 partly present already.

well.. they're mirroring from me :-)

however they appear to have only grabbed the symlinks i have in place. no ISO
images.. i'll contact the admin to find out what happened.

of course i totally stuffed up the URL there too, since it wasn't usyd, it
was UNSW.

> > <a href="ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian-cd/";>FTP</a>
> > and
> > <a href="http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian-cd/";>HTTP</a>
> > and
> > <a href="rsync://mirror.aarnet.edu.au::debian-cd/">RSYNC</a>
> 
> I wonder what webbrowser understand this... It has to be cut'n'paste-able into
> an xterm or DOS box and nobody will use "Copy Link Location" (if that's even
> possible in IE).

> (Besides it's wrong notation; if you use rsync:// then s|::|/| 
> but older rsyncs don't understand rsync:// so that's why we still use the old 
> notation.)

hmm fair enough - i've always wondered what the right notation to use
was.

> I don't mention "hosted at" unless explicitly requested, because it would
> enormously clutter up the list.

i was trying to be consistent one way or the other :-)  i thought recognition
for the sites hosting it was not a `big' thing.


cheers,

-jason



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