boot-floppies 3.0.23

2002-05-23 Thread Anthony Towns
Hi, I don't think the CDs have been regenerated since b-f's 3.0.23 came out (installed into the archive on the 21st, 3.0-pre6 was the 17th, apparently). It'd probably be good to get this done, since it should hopefully fix the sparc problems that 3.0.22 had. (Phil, if we want to move the cd imag

Re: i18n in Woody CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Romel Sandoval wrote: > > Since Debian its suppose to be the Universal Operative System and KDE > its the default x-session-manager, I think its impertive to include > kde-i18n packages in the CD#1. What do you think? This was my thinking as well, so I made quite an effort t

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: > I've checked the pre6 images and teTeX is still in CD #2. > I made a very simple and precise question about this: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200205/msg00133.html > > but nobody answered. What's the problem? This goes back abou

i18n in Woody CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Romel Sandoval
Since Debian its suppose to be the Universal Operative System and KDE its the default x-session-manager, I think its impertive to include kde-i18n packages in the CD#1. What do you think? -- Romel Sandoval -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: custom boot cd

2002-05-23 Thread Steve Haslam
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:22:29AM +0100, David Murphy wrote: > I'll probably try unpacking the ISO and see if that does the trick :) > > I guess all I should need to do is mount rescue.bin and copy the new custom > kernel into it, overwriting linux.bin and then run rdev.sh. > > Is there a confi

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Steve Haslam
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:05:45PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > I've checked the pre6 images and teTeX is still in CD #2. > I made a very simple and precise question about this: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200205/msg00133.html Odd. I made CDs using tasks/Debian_woody an

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:30:25AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > "These days"? Do you think everybody is using w**d, or is there something > else you can use for writing papers, books, letters, faxes, creating posters? Yes, there are many options. Which is why tex doesn't necessarily dese

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > I am using (La)TeX for everything I am writing, and I assume most scientists I use LaTeX for: - creating documentation - courses - exams - offers for customers - invoice for customers - commercial letters among others. The

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christian T. Steigies wrote: > "These days"? Do you think everybody is using w**d, or is there something > else you can use for writing papers, books, letters, faxes, creating posters? For scientific documents *TeX is still pretty much the only real solution, but with scientific commun

Re: upgrading potato to woody with 3.0pre6 CDs

2002-05-23 Thread Michael Knoop
I had exactly the same problem. When I ran "apt-get --simulate install dpkg apt debconf" it showed problem packages in square brackets after packages it was "installing". Using this information, and stumbling around for awhile, I finally found that running "apt-get remove libdb2" began a rather

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Santiago Vila
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Santiago Vila wrote: > > I believed there was a consensus that the most popular packages would > > be on CD #1. Thanks for replying but my question remains unanswered. > > So prove to us that TeX is popular. These days that would surprise > me very much. See i

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Santiago Vila wrote: > I believed there was a consensus that the most popular packages would > be on CD #1. Thanks for replying but my question remains unanswered. So prove to us that TeX is popular. These days that would surprise me very much. Wichert. --

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:05:45PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > but nobody answered. What's the problem? > > Apparantly there isn't a consensus that tex needs to be on cd 1. I > certainly don't see that it does. I believed there was a consensus that

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:05:45PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > but nobody answered. What's the problem? Apparantly there isn't a consensus that tex needs to be on cd 1. I certainly don't see that it does. -- Mike Stone msg03798/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Santiago Vila
I've checked the pre6 images and teTeX is still in CD #2. I made a very simple and precise question about this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200205/msg00133.html but nobody answered. What's the problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: problem using JIGDO-EASY2WIN

2002-05-23 Thread Richard Atterer
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:15:14AM +0530, Kunal Shah wrote: > Is there any way we can measure the download. I mean, > is there anyway we can see how much is downloaded > out of 670mb cd ? > I need this information to calculate the time needed to download the cd. jigdo doesn't give you that inform

Re: installation from jigdo image

2002-05-23 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:10:32PM -0700, curtis wrote: > About a month ago I created a CD image for a 2.4.x installation, [snip] > I think it was, ?install modules and drivers,? it asked me for > access to a file. Unfortunately, I don?t remember the name of the > file or the default location it w

Re: Mini-ISO updated for bf 3.0.23

2002-05-23 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:49:12PM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote: > So I'm getting reasonably sized ISOs, although I notice the jigdo > template file doesn't get significantly smaller :| I guess the > template just contains a few less "loads of zeroes until this .deb > file here" entries. No, it cont

upgrading potato to woody with 3.0pre6 CDs

2002-05-23 Thread Marcin Wolinski
Dear All, I've tried to upgrade a Potato system to Woody using the 3.0pre6 version of Debian CDs, but it failed miserably. Here is what I've done: I commented out all lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, then ran 'apt-cdrom add' for the first four disks in the set. Then did apt-get update and t

Boot CD: nogo with SCSI disks on Dell PowerEdge 1550?

2002-05-23 Thread Jeff Aqua
So, after burning myself a nice shiny new boot CD using jigdo... my SCSI disks ain't recognised. No problemo? I assume that I can load modules from the CD? Nope - need a floppy to load up the SCSI disk drivers? I guess that boot CD cannot read modules off the CD itself? Arghh? Am I better off

Re: Post-woody

2002-05-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Adam Di Carlo | Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > I just wanted to give y'all a heads up that I'd like you all to stick | > around post woody, and keep/start working on CDs and installation stuff | > for the next release. This doesn't change anything about debian-installer, | >