Re: non-free and multimedia cds

Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hello. Just a while back, I switched to dialup, rather than a high
speed network connection. Before I did, I downloaded the three stable
dvds, and more recently, got the update DVD. Is it possible to
order/purchase a CD and/or DVD that has the debian multimedia, and
non-free, repositories? Is there a place to download such an image?

You can use debmirror to download the relevant portions from the repositories.

apt-get install debmirror
debmirror --nosource --verbose --host mirrors.kernel.org --dist etch \
--method=http --section=non-free --arch=i386 --progress \
target-dir

Similarly for the multimedia repos.


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