[linux] Debian (was: I will....)

[Garrett Cooper]

    Lemme guess... does it involve grep and mkeiso?
Garrett

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Fetrow" <fetrow at apl.washington.edu>
To: "Linux/Unix Users Group at the UW" <linux at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 12:49 PM
Subject: RE: [linux] Debian (was: I will....)


>
>  Actually I wasn't referring to that but the scheme
>  where they avoid distributing ISO's from Debian itself.
>
>  There is a little program that assembles the ISO from
>  the current up-to-the-minute version(s) of the distro. It's
>  massively painful the first time (and takes up a fair
>  amount of hard disk space) but after that only the
>  changed .deb files get xfered and you can burn a current
>  ISO rather quickly.
>
>  "Massively painful the first time."
>  could serve as the Debian motto.
>
>
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> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Doug McLean wrote:
>
> > Hi David,
> >
> >
> > I didn't know about the Debian custom install CDs.  That's what you were
> > referring to, right?  If so, that'd be interesting.
> >
>