Re: Potato CD's...
Robert L Harris <Robert.L.Harris@rnd-consulting.com> writes:
RLH> Actually, for what I'm doing, I do need the whole image. I need
RLH> to install about 20 machines, no network avaialbe to them yet, but
RLH> I have a T1 at my office and can burn there.
<shrug> Then you should use the pseudo-image kit, which downloads
stuff and generates official CD images, but without trying to grab the
entire disk image in one burst and putting a lot of load on the CD
image mirrors. Look at http://cdimage.debian.org/.
(How it works, roughly: you download a list of files and packages that
go on the CD. The script downloads those packages and cats them together
into something looking more-or-less like a CD image. Then you use
rsync, which is relatively low-bandwidth, to convert that image into
an Official Debian CD Image. But the bulk of the traffic is to your
local Debian mirror, which makes life easier on the comparatively few
places that carry the ISO9660 images.)
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