Re: Linux and Free BSD CDs at Sheffield University ( was :X Servers for win32 & telnet logins)

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 02:42:28PM +0000, Bob Ham wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, [iso-8859-1] José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> 
> > accomplished, check <http://cdimage.debian.org> (unsure whether this is
> > mirrored to the UK).
> 
> ftp://mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current
> 
> That's 8 hops from here >:)

	Yeah, I was just wondering whether they have all the information
on how to create the ISO images. The way debian does it is by
downloading most of the stuff from a site near you (mirror.ac.uk) and
then "patching" it from one of the CD mirror sites. That way, it creates
a big sausage of bytes with all your packages in it. By doing this, you
minimize the load on the ISO servers. That's from the top of my head btw
X'D

	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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