Re: Wanted: 'Piecewise' Debian Compact
Tell me your postal address, may be I can burn a copy of slink, and send it to you.
Now that I have my xcdroast working... By the way,
QUESTION: A copy made through xcdroast of the official distribution, is it fully a
real image copy, fully functional?
Chirag wrote:
> Dear debian user,
>
> I am a Linux newbie in India where the only viable method of
> obtaining Linux is throgh cheap CDs that computer magazines
> give along with their mag. I don't know why but so far they
> haven't gone for any thing beyond RedHat with most of them
> concentrating on Windows flavoured ones like lnx4win and WinLinux.
>
> So hardcore distributions like Debian is not at all available thanks
> to very good ppp connections provided by the state owned
> ISP monopoly.
>
> Right now I have RedHat 6.0, Red Hat 6.1 and Linux Mandrake 6.0
> installations on my hard disk and I very much like to try something like
> Debian.
>
> I think I can do this with help from you. I hope Debian does have
> a minimum X less distribution and have split it to pieces of 1.44 MB sizes
> so people can attempt a floppy installation. If one of you can email me
> a piece daily, wthin a month I and my friends will have a Debian on our
> systems.
>
> Slackware does have such a thing in the name splitslack which is
> 25 pieces of 1.44MB each. But so far I could only download 4 of
> them thanks to frequent connection droppings by the ISP. But
> if it is by e-mail then what I download is at the local server and not in
> U.S.A and so I can get much faster data rates Also I can get to the
> mail account on a different tel no which is much quieter than
> the TCP/IP one.
>
> Hoping that you will consider this request sympathetically.
>
> Faithfully
>
> Previ
>
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