Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
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 image

Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-19 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> 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 w

Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-14 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > As for the rest of the things, Raphael has exposed things well, we can do > whatever you want with the cds, in fact, the change is so easy that we just > have to change one script to change the ordering of the boot methods in the > cds, right now the first one is i

Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-14 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > We don't need syslinux help files AFAIK. Syslinux is "integrated" into > the boot image that you provide us. I'm confused. The current daily netinst cds display a lot of help text (mostly unmodified from the boot-floppies) on boot. This text is not present from d-i, so it

Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-14 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> > I think that the main problem from the d-i team's perspective is that > > all the daily cds and the cds for beta 1 use isolinux. So when users > > come to us who cannot boot from isolinux, we have no alternative except > > boot floppies or the monthly full cd builds. Any approach that provides

Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:29:25PM -0500, Joey Hess écrivait: > > I have just tried it and it works, even though the setup for > > syslinux should be changed a bit to include the help screens and all that, > > this should be done in debian-installer, as it is d-i who makes that image. > > There ar

Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > We are using these features, current isolinux setup allows the user to > select to boot the "net" initrd or the "cdrom" initrd. I don't know if this > is wanted, this must be decided by the debian-installer guys, if we want to > offer just the posibility to boot th

Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Santiago Garcia Mantinan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Umm, seems like we go again for the same discusion, ok, I've been gathering > some old links to try to shorten this. > > The isolinux / multiboot / boot floppy emulation (syslinux) decision was > already discussed for woody, at that time I wa

Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-12 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Umm, seems like we go again for the same discusion, ok, I've been gathering some old links to try to shorten this. The isolinux / multiboot / boot floppy emulation (syslinux) decision was already discussed for woody, at that time I was building unofficial images for all woody's arches, and I also

Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Sebastian Ley wrote: > it seems that we are locking out people from testing by using isolinux > on our netinst/businesscard CDs, see #220139 and #220139. > > Since we do not need any of isolinux's features I propose to use > syslinux on the CDs. I think I agree. The only thing isolinux has the po

Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-11 Thread Sebastian Ley
Hello, it seems that we are locking out people from testing by using isolinux on our netinst/businesscard CDs, see #220139 and #220139. Since we do not need any of isolinux's features I propose to use syslinux on the CDs. Regards, Sebastian -- PGP-Key: http://www.mmweg.rwth-aachen.de/~sebastian