Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 19:18:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: Tommy Hallgren <md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM image Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970917190459.6240A-100000@grosse.mdstud.chalmers.se>
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>You mean they make it available for FTP? Yes. ftp://ftp.debian.org/OfficialCD/1.3.1/ >Sure, I could do that easily, I've just never knew that anyone would >really _want_ a 640MB file to download. They've split it into smaller files. Thank God. As others wrote to me saying that "make release" would be a substitue isn't a serious answer. When I burned my FreeBSD2.2.1 CD I had to struggle with very buggy and strange ftp programs in both Windows and MSDOS. I wanted all of the distribution. But I couldn't get any of the clients to handle symlinks they way I wanted, so I fetched the packages/All directory. Not quite what I wanted. A friend brought his Windows95 computer to my school so we still had long filenames. Burning it was very cryptic. We could choose 8.3(straight ISO/DOS) or long filenames(Windows95). When I got home I put the CD into my drive only to find that the installation program couldn't find the files. In Windows95 everything looked fine. But in Linux(which I used back then) every filename was in lower case. :-( With a complete CD-image I, and many with me, wouldn't have any of these problems, regardless of the different systems used to fetch and burn the CD. Mvh: Tommy(md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se) - Will buy the CD next time. :-)
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