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 grin I decided against my two available options: - download the whole msdos-i386

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 40

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.

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 and

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 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 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 the letters