Re: Article on Linux and non-official dist.
Hi Keith,
As you may be aware, there was another suggestion recently to issue a
mini-debian on CD with a magazine. I did some work on that project and
solved the problems of making a workable distribution which took up approx
20 Mb of CD space. So if you have 100 Mb available on a CD you can pick
another 80 Mb of packages.
There were no dependancy problems and running dselect was a walk in the
park.
With my approach the readers can upgrade easily to a full Debian by ftp,
NFS or purchasing a CDROM.
If I can help, let me know.
Lindsay
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On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Keith Beattie wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of writing an article about installing Linux (using
> Debian) and hope to have a compatible mini Debian distribution on the
> CD that comes with the magazine. I've looked, but can't seem to find
> info on the policy and details on creating non-official distributions.
>
> This isn't a review, it's a how-to article. I'm hoping that this will
> give Linux, Debain and the concept a freely available software some
> good exposure, so I'd appreciate any help on getting this to go
> smoothly. (It's my first article and plan to make a donation to the
> cause afterwards once they pay me.)
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
>
>
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