discuss: burning CDs was Re: scripts? (fwd)
Subject:
Re: burning CDs was Re: scripts? (fwd)
From:
roach ####@####.####
Date:
21 Mar 2005 00:24:15 -0000
Message-Id: <200503202346.26529.robert_spencer@mighty.co.za>
On Tuesday, 8 March 2005 23:24, G Ferguson / LDP wrote:
> > How would people like me to proceed
>
> I found my original exchange with John Hughes at
> ELS who did the former LDP CD (we setup the process
> in Jan of 2002).
>
> Anyway, the way to start is to have this person become
> a mirror site. Information can be obtained here:
>
> http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html#mirroring
"1. URL of the mirror."
The sites on CD, hence no URL. Or does /mnt/cdrom/ count. :-)
>
> They will need to determine if pruning of any content
> areas will need to be done.
There currently appears to be no instruction or guidance on pruning. Is this
correct.
> We're up over a gig of
> content now. These being the major areas (in k bytes):
>
> 116940 HOWTO
> 469500 LDP (the guides, in all their various forms)
> 174132 LDP/LG (linux gazette from linuxgazette.com)
> 161424 LDP/LGNET (from linuxgazette.net)
> 585036 linuxfocus
>
> If they need to perform link clean-up or otherwise,
> they can either write their own scripts, or we can
> help them.
Those last 4 words sound nice. Do they by any chance apply to me as well. I'm
unfortunately still in the dark about that.
> As was pointed out, it's not a difficult
> task.
When was this pointed out. I seem to have missed it. It's also not as easy as
it would appear at first glance.
> We've optimized the collection for usage
> by mirrors (static HTML), as you well know.
Optimized is not the word I would use. :-(
>
> I can help you out with this.
That would be appreciated. Thanks.
--
roach
PIETERMARITZBURG
South Africa
