US/non-US TC3 CD combos now available

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

Hi,

The CD images for all archs (except powerpc) are available via rsync
here:

  cdimage.debian.org::potato_test-cycle-3/

so let the mirroring commence.  Please use the pseudo-image kit if at
all possible (http://cdimage.debian.org/~costar/pseudo-image-kit/)

Also, if you've got a nearer mirror, please use it -- this may help:

  http://cdimage.debian.org/potato_pre.html

BTW cdimage.debian.org is in the UK.

There are 4 CDs per set, because there are two versions of each #1
CD.  The same goes for the source set.  So in the i366 area we have:

drwxr-xr-x        4096 2000/07/25 17:41:30 i386
-rw-r--r--         214 2000/07/25 17:40:54 i386/MD5SUMS
-rw-r--r--       87003 2000/07/25 17:41:05 i386/potato-i386-1.list
-rw-r--r--   658878464 2000/07/25 17:22:42 i386/potato-i386-1.raw
-rw-r--r--       90740 2000/07/25 17:41:17 i386/potato-i386-1_NONUS.list
-rw-r--r--   670199808 2000/07/25 17:26:46 i386/potato-i386-1_NONUS.raw
-rw-r--r--      115476 2000/07/25 17:41:30 i386/potato-i386-2.list
-rw-r--r--   673120256 2000/07/25 17:30:33 i386/potato-i386-2.raw
-rw-r--r--       66137 2000/07/25 17:41:37 i386/potato-i386-3.list
-rw-r--r--   526843904 2000/07/25 17:33:52 i386/potato-i386-3.raw

The .list files are used by the pseudo-image kit to speed downloads,
the 1_NONUS.raw image is the #1CD including non-US/main, and the 1.raw
image is the US exportable version of the same thing.

If you're outside the US, you may want to skip the #1 CDs (in order to
save space/bandwidth), and just get the 1_NONUS ones, whereas if your
in the US you may want to skip the 1_NONUS ones (and if you don't, be
aware that re-exporting them may result in humourless people attaching
crocodile clips to you softer tissues ;-)

Something like:  --exclude '*1.raw'   or  --exclude '*1_NONUS.raw'
should do the trick

Also, if you're going for both versions of a #1 CD, I'd imagine that
downloading the ...1_NONUS.raw one first, copying it to the ...1.raw
name and rsyncing the other one over that copy, will work rather well.

If you're rsyncing over another image, a "-B 8192" option helps.

Cheers, Phil.