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The List of packages provided are available at [http://archive.debian.net/].

[:DebianReleases:Debian Releases] > Debian Slink

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Slink is the code name for a former [:DebianStable:Stable] Debian distribution. It was released on March 9th 1998 as Debian GNU/Linux 2.1, It was superseded by Debian/[:DebianPotato:Potato] on 15 Aug 2000.

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Debian/Slink Release Information : [http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/]

See Slink [:DebianReleases/PointReleases:point-releases] [http://archive.debian.org/dists/slink/ChangeLog ?ChangeLog]

Architectures

New Features

Packages & versions
  • apt : (not available)
  • kernel : linux 2.0.34 ; 2.0.35 ;2.0.36 ; 2.0.38
  • libc : libc6 2.0.7
  • gcc : 2.7.2.3
  • X-server : XFree86 3.3.2a

The List of packages provided are available at [http://archive.debian.net/].

FAQ

Q) Any good book about debian/Slink ?

see [http://www.act.cmis.csiro.au/gjw/linux/debian.pdf] (or google for "The (OLD) Debian GNU/Linux Cookbook" Graham Williams).

See also :

  • [:DebianStable:Debian stable] - Slink was a former stable distribution.

    • [:DebianHamm:Debian Hamm] - Was the previous stable distribution.

    • [:DebianPotato:Debian Potato] - Was the next stable distribution.

?Anchor(BuildACd)

How to build a CD ?

Let me quote Kazutoshi Ando [http://coconut.sys.eng.shizuoka.ac.jp/ando/install.html WWW]:

  1. download pseudo-image-kit from http://www.uk.debian.org/~costar/pseudo-image-kit/ ?BR Windows: pseudo-image-kit-2.0.zip md5sum=aec918c787255cee69e09f90f21599a7 (use google)?BR Unix: : attachment:pseudo-image-kit-2.0.tar.gz md5sum=66252c5b4b23412e72bc9309ae69c19f

  2. uncompress pseudo-image-kit.
  3. Read the Readme file.
  4. Getting list file ?BR http://www.uk.debian.org/debian-cd/cd-images/2.1_r4/i386/binary-i386-1.list ?BR(note this file isn't available anymore on the www today [2007])

  5. make pseudo image (about 2 hours) ?BRmake-pseudo-image binary-i386-1.list ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian ?BR (note: you should use archive.debian.org..)

  6. Change the file name ?BR  move pseudo-image binary-i386-1.iso 

  7. rsync (15 min) ?BR rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192 www.uk.debian.org::debian-cd/2.1_r4/i386/binary-i386-1.iso 

  8. Check ?BR md5sum -b binary-i386-1.iso


inline:?InfoMagicDebianGnuLinux2.1r2.jpg ?BR Note the former blue eyed pinguin Debian logo. (this cd cover is probably copyrighted ?InfoMagic).