[debian-user] still floundering -> PSEUDO-IMAGE
Ugg, what a rite challenging day... I am having a dandy of
a time "coming on board"... I put my ideological views aside and
decided to get this beast installed. It seems that my media (CD)
is bad... note to self do not discard deb CD in dusty pile for
six months. Still, I will not go back to the Linux with the
red hat nor the magically one ... yet ...
So know I am using THE PSEUDO-IMAGE KIT VERSION 2.0, to get
the R3 image. As Karsten M. Self so apt'ly (pun intended)
put it, "docs are frequently outdated".
I do not imagine that it was done in spite ;-) but the README
talks about using "When using an FTP site",
"When using an HTTP site", "It is advisable to verify this
(e.g. using a web browser) before attempting the pseudo-image
generation."
whereas the website
(http://cdimage.debian.org/rsync-mirrors.html) reads
Note: These sites do NOT offer the images via FTP or HTTP
-- no use in trying! Instead, they use the rsync protocol,
which is much more efficient. Everything you need is in the
Pseudo-Image Kit, including extensive information on downloading
procedures.
LOL! Further, many of the servers are listed with a funny
format rsync.kernel.org::mirrors/debian-cd/ ... hmm...
'::' is that a valid protocol? or is that to be tricky.
I imagine it is the former, but 'make-pseudo-image' did not
work for my -- tried a number of servers -- until I added
either 'http://' or 'ftp://' and changed '::' to '/'
Who "owns" the README:
23 Sept 1999
J.A. Bezemer
<costar@panic.et.tudelft.nl>
?
Best regards,
the Lloyder
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