On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Philip Hands wrote: > > Disk 1: Main binary (i386, bootable) > > Disk 2: Contrib, non-free and non-US (binary-i386 and source) > > Disk 3: Main source (except X11, movesd to disk #2 for space reasons) > > I think we need two layouts, one for the mass-production folks, and one for > the small run gold-CD-ers.
Yes, that makes sense. [snip] > I would guess that most people that produce gold CD's have a mirror of the > parts of the ftp archive that they want to put on the CD's anyway, so they > would be best of using the standard scripts to produce their own CD images. > > You can get Andreas's CD building scripts from: > > http://www.uk.debian.org/~aj/ Ah, that's what I was looking for. Thanks. > BTW If you have a mirror of the ftp archive, but would like to be burning the > Official images once they are produced, you can save some bandwidth by > producing CD images locally, and then rsyncing them with the official images. Hmmm, yes. I wouldn't have thought of that myself. Now if only I can get the company firewall to let me run rsync :-( > I'm not sure we really need ``Official'' versions of the layout aimed at the > small run gold-CD-ers, because most of them will want to add a few extra > packages of their own, or some such. Exactly. Most of the people I'm supporting with these disks can't live without some of the non-free packages, for example. And ssh and friends are a bit useful too. -- Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
