Re: Hamm CD layouts
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Philip Hands wrote:
> > Disk 1: Main binary (i386, bootable)
> > Disk 2: Contrib, non-free and non-US (binary-i386 and source)
> > Disk 3: Main source (except X11, movesd to disk #2 for space reasons)
>
> I think we need two layouts, one for the mass-production folks, and one for
> the small run gold-CD-ers.
Yes, that makes sense.
[snip]
> I would guess that most people that produce gold CD's have a mirror of the
> parts of the ftp archive that they want to put on the CD's anyway, so they
> would be best of using the standard scripts to produce their own CD images.
>
> You can get Andreas's CD building scripts from:
>
> http://www.uk.debian.org/~aj/
Ah, that's what I was looking for. Thanks.
> BTW If you have a mirror of the ftp archive, but would like to be burning the
> Official images once they are produced, you can save some bandwidth by
> producing CD images locally, and then rsyncing them with the official images.
Hmmm, yes. I wouldn't have thought of that myself. Now if only I can get
the company firewall to let me run rsync :-(
> I'm not sure we really need ``Official'' versions of the layout aimed at the
> small run gold-CD-ers, because most of them will want to add a few extra
> packages of their own, or some such.
Exactly. Most of the people I'm supporting with these disks can't live
without some of the non-free packages, for example. And ssh and friends
are a bit useful too.
--
Steve McIntyre
stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk
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