[plug] Debian Woody CD Images

craig at postnewspapers.com.au craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Tue Dec 11 13:30:13 WST 2001


> If you've got a Linux machine I suggest you use the CD image kit and get most 
> of the stuff off your local Debian mirror.  Then you use anonymous rsync to 
> make the exact image.  This is the way you're supposed to do it.
But can you just make cd 1 that way, then apt-get required packages for
the rest once the system is installed, or does it insist on making all
the cdimages?

> Note that Woody is not that stable a distribution so your CD images will date 
> fairly quickly.
fairly?!?
My potato disks are dated by now, and that's a distro known not so much
for stability as stagnation...



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