csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: csj> I would like to know how to make my own bootable Debian csj> installation CD, WITHOUT the use of those humongous *.iso csj> files. For some reason my ISP frequently turns in abysmal ftp csj> transfer rates. I plan to use a web grabber, pavuk, to snarf the csj> packages off the net.
You should look into the Debian Pseudo-Image Kit, which is designed to work around exactly this problem (among others). It essentially downloads all of the files and packages that belong on a particular Debian CD, cats them together into something looking sort of like an iso9660 CD image, and then uses rsync to make this look like an official CD image. Look for details on http://cdimage.debian.org/. (WIBNI useful things like this and the various documents that are useful to look at were top-level links from cdimage? I just burned a potato CD set, and found it terribly difficult to find things that I knew lived on the cdimage Web site that I pretty much needed to make the images. Things like the list of rsync mirrors, the pointer to the official file lists, and so forth.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
