cvs commit to debian-cd/tools/boot/woody by jwest

2001-09-29 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-cd/tools/boot/woody who:jwest time: Sat Sep 29 17:32:43 PDT 2001 Log Message: added boot blocks for udma100-ext3 to disk 4 and reiserfs to disk 5 Files: changed:boot-i386 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

cvs commit to debian-cd/debian by jwest

2001-09-29 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-cd/debian who:jwest time: Sat Sep 29 17:37:19 PDT 2001 Log Message: updated changelog Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I created yet another woody coaster

2001-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I created new boot-floppies. I created a custom CD. I burned CD. tried an test install. Tihngs were going fine -- installing base system. And then it all stopped -- could not install nano Where is the list of files that is in the base system kept? Shouldn't the debian-cd

Re: I created yet another woody coaster

2001-09-29 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 10:14:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I created new boot-floppies. I created a custom CD. I burned CD. tried an test install. Tihngs were going fine -- installing base system. And then it all stopped -- could not install nano Where is the

Re: I created yet another woody coaster

2001-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Thanks to ah and doogie, I now have a recipe for people to avoid creating coasters. Simply use debbootstrap to get the list of base packages and ensure they exist in your local mirror. manoj __ apt-get --download-only install $(/usr/sbin/debootstrap --print-debs \

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2001-09-29 Thread Brendan Dowling
I have a machine that I would like to install debian on, the machine does not have a floppy drive and I don't have a working floppy drive that I can loan to the machine. Is there a minimal (10MB or less) bootable CD-ROM image that I can download which does the equivalent of the floppy images? I

Re: Bug#113794: Woody new install, problems with tasksel

2001-09-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 09:54:06AM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: debian-cd does nothing else than using dpkg-scanpackages ... so this one needs to be fixed, not debian-cd. [...] What is the Task: override ? I know that packages have a Task: field but is there an override file like

Re: Bug#113794: Woody new install, problems with tasksel

2001-09-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 04:47:25PM +0100, James Troup écrivait: debian-cd does nothing else than using dpkg-scanpackages ... And there's the bug. Use apt-ftparchive. Would you be so kind and explain me why ? I can use apt-ftparchive but it will change absolutely nothing if it doesn't use

Re: Bug#113794: Woody new install, problems with tasksel

2001-09-29 Thread James Troup
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 04:47:25PM +0100, James Troup crivait: debian-cd does nothing else than using dpkg-scanpackages ... And there's the bug. Use apt-ftparchive. Would you be so kind and explain me why ? Because a) it doesn't suck, unlike

Re: Bug#113794: Woody new install, problems with tasksel

2001-09-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 05:10:53PM +0100, James Troup écrivait: And I use dpkg-scanpackage for the support of this old dpkg-multicd dselect method ... Do we really want to support that nowadays ? What do other people think about that ? I'd also be happy if we could drop that because : -

cvs commit to debian-cd/tools/boot/woody by falk

2001-09-29 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-cd/tools/boot/woody who:falk time: Sat Sep 29 16:21:13 PDT 2001 Log Message: Adapt to changes with woody boot floppies. Largely untested, but the previous version didn't work at all, so it can only have improved :) Files: changed:boot-alpha added:

Re: Bug#113794: Woody new install, problems with tasksel

2001-09-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: Anthony Towns wrote: Actually debian-cd probably makes its own packages files and doesn't include the Task: overrides at all. That's badly broken then. Debian-cd people: Until debian-cd is fixed to propigate Task: fields out from the arch's Packages

Re: Bug#113794: Woody new install, problems with tasksel

2001-09-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Raphael Hertzog wrote: What do other people think about that ? Ditch it. Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]