RE: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation
Go to http://cdimage.debian.org to find the easy way!
Matthew Sherborne
> -----Original Message-----
> From: csj@mindgate.net [mailto:csj@mindgate.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2000 2:36 p.m.
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation
>
>
> I had tried ftp'ing from /debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/.
> It contains
> far too many files to fit on a CD. And it doesn't contain the
> boot images and
> other non-.deb stuff.
>
> So how did I finally get my bootable CD? I (ahem)
>
> (1) Downloaded the first 2MB's of the .iso image
>
> (2) Loop mount'ed the partial image and then typed at the mount point
> something like "find ." to get the CD file list.
>
> (3) Used gedit to search and replace the "./" in the file list
> with something
> my ftp program could recognize (turning for instance "./dist/potato/" into
> "ftp.foobear.net/pub/linux/dist/potato")
>
> (4) Fed the URL's to my ftp program, and waited, and waited (some more)
>
> (5) Tweaked the files a bit to get the symlinks to work.
>
> (6) Picked a nice boot image (which BTW is to be found in
> "/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/" and not in package directory
> "/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/") to feed to mkisofs's
> "-b" option.
>
> (7) And burned, baby, burned.
>
> On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, David Wright wrote:
> > Quoting csj@mindgate.net (csj@mindgate.net):
> <snip>
> > > My main complaint is against the Debian ftp directory
> structure: Unlike with
> > > Redhat and Co., you can't just copy the files off the ftp site (unless
> > > you're willing to put up with the truly daunting 650 MB iso
> download). Debian
> > > lumps together the various architectures, such that a simple
> recursive ftp from
> > > (target site)/pub/linux/distributions/debian/ won't do the
> trick. Redhat, on
> > > the other hand, has separate directories for the files needed
> for i386, sparc,
> > > alpha, etc. (I'm not sure if things will remain just as neat with the
> > > multi-CD Redhat 7.0).
> >
> > I don't understand. I see .../debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/
> > so what's that but the architecture? Or did you expect to see the
> > architecture above the Debian distribution in the tree?
>
>
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