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Re: Debian 2.0 official



Strange...They DO say they sell the official CD...I thought of ordering from
them as well, but if you say they don't deliver the official dist I guess
I'll try another vendor...

-----Original Message-----
From: shaul@rakefet.technion.ac.il <shaul@rakefet.technion.ac.il>
To: Ze'ev Maor <gmaor@techunix.technion.ac.il>
Cc: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>; beitamos@inter.net.il
<beitamos@inter.net.il>
Date: שבת 22 אוגוסט 1998 21:16
Subject: Re: Debian 2.0 official


>> Howdy, anyone knows if I can get Debian 2.0 official CDs in ISRAEL
>> (main+non-free+non-us....all) or should I just order it from the
states...
>
>I have (sort of).
>I ordered it becuase debian's home page claimed (at least when I ordered
it)
>that it is the official CDs with contrib + the non-* sections as well.
>However, if you'll check their home page (www.datom.de/debian) you'll see
that
>they can't ship all those sections due to copyright problems (Their home
page
>has a list of the packages that they do ship).
>Furthere more. Today I got the CDs, and found that
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>                         DEBIAN 2.0 stable Sun Aug  9 10:00:00 UTC 1998
>
>WARNING: No official CD-ROM.              WARNING: No official CD-ROM.
>WARNING: No official CD-ROM.              WARNING: No official CD-ROM.
>WARNING: No official CD-ROM.              WARNING: No official CD-ROM.
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>This is the DEBIAN GNU/Linux 2.0 stable version.  It's also known
>as `hamm'.
>
>This is by no means an official Debian CD.  Since the official CDs
>doesn't address the installation from multiple CDs yet, we have made
>our own version.  But beware, even our own version is
>work-in-progress, so please don't expect it to work. Nevertheless
>you'll have a complete and up-to-date mirror of the Debian 2.0 files.
>
>                         Multi-CD Installation
>
>Start the installation as usual (using a floppy or booting the CD
directly).
>Go through until you reach the `dselect' tool.  Now you may use one
>of the well tested methods.  All main packages are on the first CD, this
>way you'll miss only the contrib, non-free and non-US parts.
>
>You may skip the step above and follow the instructions below:
>
>Once you've done this, you may try to install the ``dpkg-multidisk''
package
>from the updates directory:
>
> mount /dev/hdc /mnt  (or whatever or CD rom drive is)
> dpkg -i /mnt/updates/dpkg-multicd*deb
>
>If this succeeds you'll have a multi_cd method for installation and
upgrade.
>This method(s) should be sensible enough to handle multi-CD installations
>(even if the CDs are somewhere in a file server ....).  Due to the beta
>state of the dpkg-multicd methods it is likly that you'll find updates
>on our webpage http://www.datom.de/debian/.
>
>                       Upgrade from bo
>
>Since the upgrade procedure constantly changes ;-) we only point you to
>http://www.debian.org/news#19980624.  APT and autoup can be found in the
>upgrade directory.
>
>
>Support:
>
>For further questions please use the usual ways.  We read the
>mailinglists as well as the relevant news groups.   Please contact us
>directly only in case of questions related to this CD ...
>
>Suggestions regarding this CD set are always welcome.
>
>Thanks.
>
>                                                                 dat m
>--------------------------------------------------------------------*
>      datom internet support heiko schlittermann & partner gbr
>        http://www.datom.de/ hs@datom.de heiko@debian.org
>
>************************************ End of quotes
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>Another, hopefuly small, matter about those CDs is that not all the source
>files seems to be where they are claimed to be. In particular, the
README.disk
>says that the X11 sources are to be found in the 2nd CD. And, in reality,
they
>are in the 3rd.
>
>Conclusions:
>1) I hope I didn't make a mistake when I ordered from them. At least one
thing
>that might show their integrity and good intentions, though, is that
they'll
>let you pay only after you actually recieved your order.
>2) How will you'll be able to get contrib + non-* sectins on the officail
CDs ?
>I maen, isn't it against debian policy ? And besides, are the well known US
CD
>vendors actually claim to have those parts on their CDs ? Is it legal for
them
>? (although I haven't checked lately)
>3) If you, or anyone else, do want me to make a copy of those CDs - let me
>know (as usual for this message, even here I got a disclaimer part. I don't
>have a CD writer and I don't know anyone who does. Which means I'll have to
>pay if I want the CDs to be copied)
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