On 2009-03-29_16:45:05, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 09:36:17AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On 2009-03-29_06:07:29, Thorny wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:01:17 -0600, Paul E Condon posted: > > > > > > > I see a list of rsync mirrors for an install CD at www.debian.org. I am > > > > running Lenny and have rsync installed. I have successfully used rsync > > > > to > > > > do backups locally between hosts on the same LAN. But I don't know what > > > > to ... > > which refers to a server in my part of the country. (Red doesn't come thru > > in > > my cut and paste. Nor do bullets.) > > > Aptitude install rsync / apt-get install rsync > > Then (probably as root) > > rsync debian.mirrors.tds.net::debian-cd/ > > Which would get you the whole of the debian-cd/ tree. > > This is probably _NOT_ what you want. > > Try downloading a netinst via http (go to http://cdimage.debian.org and > browse down till you get to your architecture) > > OR > > aptitude install jigdo-file / apt-get install jigdo-file > > Then download the template and .jigdo file from cdimage.org and, as > root, run > > jigdo-lite > > in the same directory as the directory you downloaded them to. > > This will then prompt you for your nearest mirror and will build the > image by getting ten or so files at a time until the image is complete. > > All best, > > AndyC Thanks. It is clear from this that "Rsync Mirrors" is not at all what I thought it was. I had thought it was an improvement on jigdo for downloading an updated version of an iso for which I already had an older, out-of-date file.
What I had thought was that I could take my netinst.iso from a few months before Lenny release and rsync it into being a true copy of the latest version of Lenny netinst without having to transfer ALL the individual bits of the new copy. That would save some time and bandwidth over downloading a whole new copy, but ... I sure was mistaken. I certainly don't want to mirror the whole Lenny repository locally. No wonder Thorny was puzzled by my question! My download of a new netinst is half done while I composed this reply. Thanks. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org