Re: Still no base tarball
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:45:15AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:32:11AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > > Anthony, Adam tells me that you are the responsible party for the base
> > > > tarball. Where do we find this beast?
> > > Hrm. I don't really have the b/width to make these available. They're pretty
> > What do you mean!
>
> I have regular connectivity issues.
>
> > You, of all people on the project, [...]
>
> There are other people in the project. I'm sorry, but I really can't do
> everything.
>
> > Most of the participants in the debian-testing group, even with Linux
> > machines, would be better served with a simple downloadable file.
>
> Yes, I'm aware of that, it's just that I can't reasonably put that
> downloadable file up anywhere myself. Anyway, I asked around on irc and
> Steve Frost has put some up as:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~sfrost/basedebs_3.0_alpha.tar
> http://people.debian.org/~sfrost/basedebs_3.0_i386.tar
> http://people.debian.org/~sfrost/basedebs_3.0_powerpc.tar
>
> Which should be enough to get you started.
This will work for the testing folks. Thanks!
Where will this file be placed in the final release? (i.e. where does the
installation software expect to find this on a CD or in an archives?)
Waiting is,
Dwarf
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