Re: [Debian-User] Re: More on Network Install
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 01:42:18PM -0700, Admin wrote:
> Andrei Popescu
>
> Thanks for your reply. Hope you don't have to snip too much. My yet
> outstanding question is the POOL directory. I think the POOL directory
> contains 'sarge' which would be the latest official release. But I am
> not sure.
>
The "pool" contains packages for stable / testing / unstable all
together. If you install Stable, the release package list pulls the
package versions used from stable from the pool, Testing pulls testing
and so on.
> But everyone seems to get distracted about me wanting a local LAN
> mirror of source and binanry. Granted that a dial up connection and
> especially a dial up connection that is shared between several machines
> is going to take forever (I estimate over 200 days -- maybe longer if it
> keeps dropping connections on big ORIG files and then starting over).
>
The packages are put on the CD's / DVD's in popularity order these days.
The first two CD's or the first DVD (worth 7 CD's) will possibly be all
you require.
>
> I have been looking for a Canadian source of these 14 CDs -- one that
> uses the Debian authorized images.
There are Linux user groups in Canada - there are even Debian
developers.You could try asking your nearest LUG which has fast network
connection to download you one disk and mail it to you.
>
> At the present time I do not have a machine on which to run DEBIAN. So,
> I use live CDs or DVDs which claim to also install the entire
> distribution but I know from experience that 4 or 5 DVDs are required in
> order to get the whole show -- all 14 or 15. So one LIVE DVD is not 14 CDs.
>
One DVD is 6 or 7 CDs.
> I had reserved about 200 Gig of space on the C_drv of my busiest
> machine (XP Pro machine with Pentium 3) for DEBIAN running in
> conjunction with Xen the virtual machine. But I did not partition or
> format this empty space and I cannot get any partition facility to
> recognize that the empty disk space even exists. Instead, these
> facilities think that this big disk is just 22 Gig and there is no other
> space. If you or anyone else knows of a facility that can reclaim this
> empty space then please let me know. Otherwise, DEBIAN will have to wait
> for the new machine or go dual boot on one still at the computer
> hospital recovering from a faulty disk and slow service. I am
> considering an Intel dual core BUT I DON'T KNOW IF DEBIAN WILL RUN ON
> SUCH A MACHINE??????
>
Of course it will. You can use either the i386 (32 bit) distribution or
the amd64 (64 bit) version on such a machine. On 64 bit / brand new
hardware I would be tempted to go straight to an install of Etch, which is
currently the Debian testing release - it will be released as a stable
version sometime in the next few months in all probability.
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:28:25 -0700
> >Archive <thilts33@telus.net> wrote:
> >
> >[huge snip]
> >
> >The entire Debian archive is ~205 GB. You do *not* want to download
> >that over a slow connection.
> >
Full ack - with a 2MB line, it took me about ten days to download it.
Hope this helps,
Andy
>
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