[Westwales] Debian and firewire drives

[John Bailey]

>  Hrm... see, r5 was the latest 'stable' version I could find, and I had 
> enough problems finding the r5 version of CD 1 this morning (bittorrent 
> failed me) - most of the mirrors are still hosting r4.

Aih - see the raging debates about the speed of the Debian release cycle 
.. 3.0 must be 2 or more years old by now - the revisions are usually only 
security fixes/licensing issues - they don't actually pull in new versions 
of anything unless they're absolutely forced to.

Many people (myself included) use 'unstable' (at home, anyway) - which 
while it can sound a bit unattractive, isn't usually that bad (the only 
time that I can recall that I had a real issue was when they broke the PAM 
packages, meaning that you couldn't log in using any PAM enabled method 
... a real kicker for people who had machines sitting in remote data 
centers).  Then there's the mid-point, 'testing' which I find tends to be 
pretty good.  All depends how close to the bleeding edge you want to get.

> However, I've just kicked off the appropriate net installer (184MB) and 
> I'll see how that goes...

Ah, I see it's bulked out since I last did an net install =)

John