Re: .raw naming
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:34:48AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:
>
> > The most frequent question I've gotten about the Debian CD images is "how
> > can I burn an image in .raw format?" We might want to be more obvious that
> > this is what most other programs refer to as .iso.
>
> On the official site, the images under the versioned directories are
> named things like:
>
> 2.1_r4/i386/binary-i386-1.iso
>
> which is actually a hard link to:
>
> slink_test/i386/slink1-i386.raw
>
> so most people end up seeing images named *.iso anyway.
Well, just as a note for the future, we might want to make these links
available for potato_pre (woody_pre) images too.
Dan
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