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 > /-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >----/ Daniel J. Mashao > Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] > University of Cape Town http://daniel.eng.uct.ac.za > Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 021-6502816 (c) 082-928-3692 > /-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >----/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
