On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 05:25:16PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:51:14PM -0700, Jaimos F. Skriletz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > (I didn't want to wait for the CD or purchase one since I have no cash | > to spare) | | False economies at best. You can purchase the 3-disk set from a number | of sources, I picked up a set from LinuxCentral | (http://www.linuxcentral.com/), cost is about $9, postage included, | delivery within a few days. This would be the time it took you to | browse through the FAQs. Strongly recommended, particularly if you | don't have a high-bandwidth connection. | | > to begin this project, but little to my knowledge, I have spent the | > last three days reading though your FAQ's, readme files, etc trying to | > figure out how to get the image which should be a simple afair, yet | > failing miserabbaly and I have the following comments/complaints I | > hope you will at least consider about your system. | | The docs could be better organized. However, this list is populated | with folks who've been through most of the pains themselves, strongly | recommended you ask first. We're usually pretty helpful, or so I hear.
Yeah, just look at all the responses you've gotten already (and no flames :-)). | > First I will like to say that your meathod is intivative and I | > understand your issues of wanting to save banwith, also after thinking | > about your meathod of using the .list file to direct what pacakages | > will be installed on the machince, I see that for a knowledgable | > Debian user it could be advantage to spelizise that list to get the | > maximum performace out of your operating system which is the final | > goal of most devout users in my opion, but now on to my problems | | Huh? | | > My complaints are as follows, first off, the process of getting the | > pseudo-image and onward is not 'straight-forward' or 'easy' but I'm up | > for the challange so I read though the files and followed the | > directions to the T, and yet it still didn't work. | | I've heard from several users, of varying levels of experience, | including seasoned GNU/Linux experts, who've utterly failed to negotiate | the pseudo-image install. I'd strongly discourage it based on this. | Anyone with other input please step forward. I made my (potato) cds at work (not a bad connection, though RoadRunner doesn't compare to T3) on a Win2k (or was it NT at the time?) box. I use cygwin a lot on it. I found the instructions a bit confusing at first, but I managed to get it to work. I went through the psuedo-image process for about 1.5 of the cds, then I just went directly with rsync. The thing they "forget" to tell you in the docs is that you can use rsync even if one of the files doesn't exist. (Hint : get the rsync path for the ISOs from the end of the instructions and just use 'rsync <path>') It is sort of cheating, from the "conserve bandwidth" perspective but it works. BTW, I had already used RH (6.1 and 7.0) for about a year and had installed Debian via network (T3) before I moved home. At work, on windows, I use cygwin for nearly everything. After that I had to wipe my disk to check it for errors (long story, its in the archives around March) so I needed to get cds to re-install (I wasn't about to try a network install over a dial-up modem connection, especially when I didn't even know how to configure the modem at the time). It would be nice if someone provided a simple mechanism for non-Unix gurus to obtain ISOs, but since I don't have a decent connection I can't provide it. -D