[tech] Possibly a stupid question...

[Grahame Bowland]

> On Nov 10, Nick Bannon scrawled :

> 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).

I've just investigated more. If someone can confirm/deny that would
be great. Looking at the way its set up, binary-i386 symlinks binary-all
where necessary. So I need to grab random files to make it work, but
basically (I used du -h -L to get this):
  /debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/ = 1.4G
  /debian/dists/potato/non-free/binary-i386/ = 282M
  /debian/dists/potato/contrib/binary-i386/ = 99M
  /debian/non-US/dists/potato/non-US/main/binary-i386/ = 9.8M

I have a > 3Gb ext2fs partition to fill. Yippee :)

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Grahame Bowland

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