Re: We should help this guy...

1997-07-31 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Go ahead and download the msdos-i386 directory. Lots of files, but > they're all small symlink files to the real ones. Won't take too > long ... > Really? my version of ftp follows the links and collects the files. Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 4

Re: We should help this guy...

1997-07-31 Thread Dean Carpenter
> >Not if you just burn the msdos-i386 directory :) It has names for all > >the packages in 8.3 format. > > Yeah, I thought of that too - *after* I had already downloaded the whole > binary-i386 directory tree > > I decided against my two available options: > > - download the whole msdos-i

Re: We should help this guy...

1997-07-30 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Kevin" == Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> Using RockRidge is the only way to write a Debian CD that I Kevin> know about. Not if you just burn the msdos-i386 directory :) It has names for all the packages in 8.3 format. Try that next time! :) -- Brought to you by t

Re: We should help this guy...

1997-07-30 Thread Kevin Traas
>Kevin> Using RockRidge is the only way to write a Debian CD that I >Kevin> know about. > >Not if you just burn the msdos-i386 directory :) It has names for all >the packages in 8.3 format. Yeah, I thought of that too - *after* I had already downloaded the whole binary-i386 directory tree

Re: We should help this guy...

1997-07-30 Thread Kevin Traas
>> - -Does not need RockRidge > >IIRC, RockRidge only adds Unix filesystems semantics to ISO 9660. There is >nothing in the install which depends on this AFAICT. Using RockRidge is the only way to write a Debian CD that I know about. I had a CDR under Win95/NT. The software I used there (Corel

RE: We should help this guy...

1997-07-30 Thread Alec Clews
>> - -A distribution that made sense in 100MB monthly parcels. (we can only > >I don't think Debian makes sense this way. It would take six isssues to >distribute just the stuff in the binary CD of the official CD set (and it >might make sense to distribute as much as possible of contrib, non-free

Re: We should help this guy...

1997-07-30 Thread jdassen
[moved to debian-user, as the question originated there] On Jul 30, Philippe Troin wrote : This was posted to debian-user. We have to help this English magazine ! Don't get me wrong. I'd like to spread the word (and the code), but I think there are quite a few problems with what is requested. >