Re: burning hamm on CD.
It is NT here. I am going to delete the identical files, my question is,
whether to delete from binary-all or from binary-i386.
TIA,
Liran.
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On Thu, 21 May 1998, Peter Paluch wrote:
> Hello,
> ======
>
> > Hi,
> > I downloaded the Hamm/main at work, the problem is that the size of the
> > tree is about 760 MB. I want to burn it to CD, but it won't fit.
> >
> > I noticed that a lot of packages are identical in the binary-0i386 and
> > binary-all, can I remove the identical ones from the binary-all?
>
> What software did you use to download the Debian distribution tree? As far
> as I know there are no identical packages in the binary-i386 and in the
> binary-all, but there are just symbolical links from binary-i386 to
> binary-all. It is possible that your ftp software doesn't know symbolical
> links and instead of making them it downloaded the files twice - once in
> the binary-i386 and once in the binary-all.
>
> This is going to be problem in non-Linux systems as they cannot make any
> symbolical links.
>
> It is also possible that you simply counted sizes of those files twice, and
> that you _have_ those symbolic links. But I wonder.
>
> I will be very happy if somebody from this list answers to this problem.
>
> All the very best,
> Peter
>
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