Re: Alternative to DEBIAN-CD
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 13:01, Daniel Mashao wrote:
> I find debian-cd complicate and I cannot find the reason why it should be.
> All I want is to go to my usual mirror site and get woody distribution
> files and write them to a cd so that I can go home and update my
> computer to woody. 'potato' is just plain old - released in 2000, etc. I
> have a scanner that needs plustek driver which has been available since
> long time ago but 'potato' uses an old version that does not include this
> driver(sane program). So I have to upgrade to 'woody' or compile the
> program myself (which is what I had to do with lots of stable releases
> such as jpilot)
>
> The best alternative would be if I was able to get the woody files and
> burn a cd and go home and install on my home machine. Trying to use
> debian-cd was wasting my time. I could not understand the cryptic error
> messages (if they were error messages at all :) ). All I want is a
> program that will take the address of the mirror site, the dist I want,
> and say get woody for me. Have the program get it. Simple.
>
> So are there any alternatives to debian-cd?
>
You could use jigdo-lite to make a set of (eight) cd's, with the complete
woody distribution.
Take a look at http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/
hth,
bob
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