Re: state of d-i sarge: broken
Am Saturday 03 July 2004 21:14 schrieb Geert Stappers: On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 02:29:55PM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote: If it would be possible to provide daily PXE or Etherboot d-i images that might help. People could let their boot servers serve up those and quickly test most functionality on garden variety hardware. A visit to http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status and some clicks got me to http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/ Is that what you proposed? Hey thanks a lot! Those already are exactly the d-i files I had in mind. I was additionally thinking if those could be made available by tftp publicly, it would be a snap setting up the local dhcp server to point to those (or to the PXE bootloader for PXE capable clients respectively). It is especially easy for people with cable/dsl routers to temporarily put an URL for the PXE bootloader into their routers webinterface to install and test debian without the need to write any static bootmedia. People without webinterfaced routers could follow the dhcpd instructions on http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianInstallerNetbootPXE or even a script maybe. Cheers Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: state of d-i sarge: broken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 04 July 2004 15:45, C. Gatzemeier wrote: Am Saturday 03 July 2004 21:14 schrieb Geert Stappers: A visit to http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status and some clicks got me to http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/ Is that what you proposed? Hey thanks a lot! Those already are exactly the d-i files I had in mind. As the link above is daily, this should be a sarge_d-i build. Are there also sid_d-i netboot images available? Cheers, FJP -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA6CSzgm/Kwh6ICoQRAnv2AJ9BCQoTsq587SgxIPQrCXQDoIbjSwCg02FX ElzHUsNsoIiPYcI353fZNUI= =XUq6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: state of d-i sarge: broken
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:39:22PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 04 July 2004 15:45, C. Gatzemeier wrote: Am Saturday 03 July 2004 21:14 schrieb Geert Stappers: A visit to http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status and some clicks got me to http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/ Is that what you proposed? Hey thanks a lot! Those already are exactly the d-i files I had in mind. As the link above is daily, this should be a sarge_d-i build. You're confusing CD image directories with daily initrd build directories. There's no sarge_d-i/sid_d-i distinction in the latter, which is what Geert pointed to. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: state of d-i sarge: broken
Testing on real hardware would be better in such cases, but this requires far more time by burning CD images, for instance.and of course, this also requires hardware. If it would be possible to provide daily PXE or Etherboot d-i images that might help. People could let their boot servers serve up those and quickly test most functionality on garden variety hardware. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: state of d-i sarge: broken
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 02:29:55PM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote: Testing on real hardware would be better in such cases, but this requires far more time by burning CD images, for instance.and of course, this also requires hardware. If it would be possible to provide daily PXE or Etherboot d-i images that might help. People could let their boot servers serve up those and quickly test most functionality on garden variety hardware. A visit to http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status and some clicks got me to http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/ Is that what you proposed? Christian Cheers Geert Stappers pgpvBEdpT2R1u.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: state of d-i sarge: broken
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:47 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Testing on real hardware would be better in such cases, but this requires far more time by burning CD images, for instance.and of course, this also requires hardware. Net-booting d-i works fairly well. -- Karl Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: state of d-i sarge: broken
Quoting Karl Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Testing on real hardware would be better in such cases, but this requires far more time by burning CD images, for instance.and of course, this also requires hardware. Net-booting d-i works fairly well. But also required some infrastructure...:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: state of d-i sarge: broken
I'm afraid that sid is diverging too far from sarge for it to be easy to keep maintaining sarge (we're at the point of needing relativly untested backports of some packages to be put into sarge to fix bugs), and that nobody is testing sarge's d-i, or paying much attention to it at all. Well, my daily tests are done on sarge_d-i as well as sid_d-i images. However, I can only do these in a VmWare environment with a standard install path which is pretty limitating and may miss some broken things. But, such tests have revealed the debconf priority bug (and a few other people have found it in the same time) so I think we have people paying attention to sarge. Probably not enough because there are so many possible cases(the 2.4/2.6 duality does not help in that matter). Testing on real hardware would be better in such cases, but this requires far more time by burning CD images, for instance.and of course, this also requires hardware. On my side, my testing and l10n activity will probably be more irregular from now up to 4th week of August because of many days away in July...and a full 2 1/2 week away in August. Normal rhythm expected to come back on August 23rd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
