Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs
Le Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:00:12PM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan écrivait: > We can build two netinst sets for now if you want, but I'd rather build test > images with the last version of isolinux in debug mode before making a > decision on all this, anybody objects on building this kind of images and > asking the people that wrote the bugs to test them so that we can get > feedback on this? Go ahead ! Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://www.ouaza.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com Earn money with free software: http://www.geniustrader.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#221638: Install report for debian-installer
redcane wrote: > I first tried the ~105Mb image with the base system, but it refused to boot. > The CD was simply not detected as a bootable CD. I origanlly burnt it on > another machine using k3b, and later tried Gcombust... Both had the same > result The netinst Cd however, worked fine. That's quite strange since AFAIK both use the same method for booting. I'm sure the debian-cd mailing list would appreciate some details about how it failed and the details of your CDROM drive and BIOS. You might also try the daily CD builds, just in case they somehow fix this. > Dvorak should not be auto selected for Australian English. I think it should > preferably by a second selectable choice. Known problem, fix in progress. > Quite impressed by, as far as I could tell, perfect hardware detection on my > system. > > I was surprised there was no manual selection of mirrors. When I picked the > option not describing any country, it gave me an option "(NULL)" and I > couldn't back out. As you can imagine, trying to download from (NULL) failed > miserably Known problem (see the errata page), fixed in the daily builds. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs
> Right, we'll want to add help screens to syslinux for all of our images > in any case. I think I understand now, isolinux uses its own help > screens which it reads from the CD, and these come from debian-cd (for > now..), but we can control the rest of them. That's it. > I don't particularly want to make the decision about which CD has > isolinux on it and which uses the old method. I do want to get the help > texts straightened out and preferably in one place, and I do want to Sounds reasonable, we can get the texts out of a package, for example, one thing that would be good is if we didn't need root for getting those texts, avoid things like loop mounting and so. > have a netinst CD without isolinux on it. Anything you guys decide that > accomplishes that is 100% fine with me, you are the ones who know all > about isolinux. Seems like isolinux has put some bugfixes to avoid problems with broken bioses and they work, at least my scsi bios can boot from sarge's cds but not from woody's first cd. We can build two netinst sets for now if you want, but I'd rather build test images with the last version of isolinux in debug mode before making a decision on all this, anybody objects on building this kind of images and asking the people that wrote the bugs to test them so that we can get feedback on this? Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net
Re: Bug#221638: Install report for debian-installer
redcane wrote: > I first tried the ~105Mb image with the base system, but it refused to boot. > The CD was simply not detected as a bootable CD. I origanlly burnt it on > another machine using k3b, and later tried Gcombust... Both had the same > result The netinst Cd however, worked fine. That's quite strange since AFAIK both use the same method for booting. I'm sure the debian-cd mailing list would appreciate some details about how it failed and the details of your CDROM drive and BIOS. You might also try the daily CD builds, just in case they somehow fix this. > Dvorak should not be auto selected for Australian English. I think it should > preferably by a second selectable choice. Known problem, fix in progress. > Quite impressed by, as far as I could tell, perfect hardware detection on my > system. > > I was surprised there was no manual selection of mirrors. When I picked the > option not describing any country, it gave me an option "(NULL)" and I > couldn't back out. As you can imagine, trying to download from (NULL) failed > miserably Known problem (see the errata page), fixed in the daily builds. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs
> Right, we'll want to add help screens to syslinux for all of our images > in any case. I think I understand now, isolinux uses its own help > screens which it reads from the CD, and these come from debian-cd (for > now..), but we can control the rest of them. That's it. > I don't particularly want to make the decision about which CD has > isolinux on it and which uses the old method. I do want to get the help > texts straightened out and preferably in one place, and I do want to Sounds reasonable, we can get the texts out of a package, for example, one thing that would be good is if we didn't need root for getting those texts, avoid things like loop mounting and so. > have a netinst CD without isolinux on it. Anything you guys decide that > accomplishes that is 100% fine with me, you are the ones who know all > about isolinux. Seems like isolinux has put some bugfixes to avoid problems with broken bioses and they work, at least my scsi bios can boot from sarge's cds but not from woody's first cd. We can build two netinst sets for now if you want, but I'd rather build test images with the last version of isolinux in debug mode before making a decision on all this, anybody objects on building this kind of images and asking the people that wrote the bugs to test them so that we can get feedback on this? Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
