Re: Downloading and building iso image of Debian Linux

2000-11-30 Thread Bernd Hentig
> > > For whatever it's worth, I appreciate all your hard work and time, but in > > the end I have to conclude Pseudo-Image Kit + rsync = crap > [..] > > Anne will probably point you to the FAQ and everything else you (should) > > have read. > > Indeed. Before using the Pseudo-Image Kit, this is

Re: Downloading and building iso image of Debian Linux

2000-11-30 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:48:01AM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: > ... This can be done, but the most reliable way it to make rescue and boot > floppies, then, on a local disk (maybe a separate partition), you need the 11 > or 12 base floppy images that can be used directly from the hard drive.

Re: Downloading and building iso image of Debian Linux

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Guthrie
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 12:19:23AM -0800, John Horak wrote: > > Maybe, like most businesses, [...] You seem to be confused on this point. Debian is a community of volunteers, corporate sponsors, zealots, hackers (not haX0rZ), etc. The maintainers of the debian project do this for the love

Re: Downloading and building iso image of Debian Linux

2000-11-30 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 12:19:23AM -0800, John Horak wrote: > > > For whatever it's worth, I appreciate all your hard work and time, but in > the end I have to conclude Pseudo-Image Kit + rsync = crap [..] > Anne will probably point you to the

Re: Downloading and building iso image of Debian Linux

2000-11-30 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 12:19:23AM -0800, John Horak wrote: > Those two utilities are perhaps the best examples why Linux is, after all the years, >still only a tiny shadow of Windows OS's, since they probably all by themselves >manage to drive potential Linux user promptly away and back into

Downloading and building iso image of Debian Linux

2000-11-30 Thread John Horak
Well, dear friends at Debian. I just thought I'd share with you my recent experience of trying to get Debian Linux (at least cd1) to install. Now, let me tell you right from the start I'm no newbie to computers, and I'm quite fluent with good old DOS and OS's in general, including several previo