[tech] Possibly a stupid question...

Nick Bannon nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Nov 10 22:29:53 WST 1999


On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 10:08:52PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
[...]
>   cp -r -v /debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/ /...wherever...
[...]
> Did I get this right, or do I need more complicated commands
> to get a working mirror? (I don't want to have to copy all of slink
> as well as potato.)

Erm... Good question - try it. ::-)

You'll definitely need binary-all as well as binary-i386. Copy disks-i386
as well and delete the bits you don't need (like 1.2MB floppy images
and all the base*.bin floppy images - the base*.tgz will do).

Nick.

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