Re: tools/ and dftp on mirrors

2008-08-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve McIntyre | On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 06:41:21PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: | >Joerg Jaspert wrote: | >> unless someone has a *very* good reason (and is willing to do the work) | >> we are planning to kick the tools/ directory from our mirrors, as well | >> as the dftp*.gz files in project/mis

Re: tools/ and dftp on mirrors

2008-08-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michelle Konzack, le Mon 11 Aug 2008 20:09:23 +0200, a écrit : > Hmmm, this mean, "loadlin.exe" would be removed too? loadlin is used for the win9x support too. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tools/ and dftp on mirrors

2008-08-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-08-07 09:42:31, schrieb Daniel Moerner: > Hello, > > Although it is doubtful that anyone actually uses all of those zip > files in order to install debian, I think it is very likely that other > linux sites point to the debian/tools directory to inform people where > to download rawrite an

Re: tools/ and dftp on mirrors

2008-08-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 06:41:21PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> unless someone has a *very* good reason (and is willing to do the work) >> we are planning to kick the tools/ directory from our mirrors, as well >> as the dftp*.gz files in project/misc. > >Please check with the de

Re: tools/ and dftp on mirrors

2008-08-07 Thread Daniel Moerner
Hello, Although it is doubtful that anyone actually uses all of those zip files in order to install debian, I think it is very likely that other linux sites point to the debian/tools directory to inform people where to download rawrite and md5sum, two relatively common utilities needed if you have

Re: tools/ and dftp on mirrors

2008-08-07 Thread Frans Pop
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > unless someone has a *very* good reason (and is willing to do the work) > we are planning to kick the tools/ directory from our mirrors, as well > as the dftp*.gz files in project/misc. Please check with the debian-cd team first. Files from tools are still being included on

tools/ and dftp on mirrors

2008-08-07 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi unless someone has a *very* good reason (and is willing to do the work) we are planning to kick the tools/ directory from our mirrors, as well as the dftp*.gz files in project/misc. Reason: - They are useless nowadays. If someone wants to install Debian from a windows system they use some