Dirty workaround for size reduction in the netinst cds

2004-04-21 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! There problem in the code that selects the packages to go into the cds when we use either metapackages such as mail-transport-agent, for example, or we give alternatives, this translates into a problem in the size of the netinst cds, I have talked about this with Raphael already. The thing

Re: Stable DVD and jigdo error

2004-04-21 Thread Jan Kesten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris schrieb: Using that doc.tgz file you sent me the link for. It worked. I remounted the tmp iso image and scaned the untarred doc.tgz file. It worked fine. Actually I had the tmp iso copied to a new directory, deleted the old doc directory

Re: Dirty workaround for size reduction in the netinst cds

2004-04-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Quoting Santiago Garcia Mantinan: The problem was how to translate this into debian-cd code, and I did so at gluck by hinting the list, I mean that I added a couple of good hints at the beginning of the list so that the problematic dependencies that were throwing a lot of unwanted stuff in the

Re: 2.6 kernels and CDs

2004-04-21 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Anyway, I'm concerned that this will probably not fit on a netinst iso image. The current netinst iso is 106 mb (that includes the existing 2.6.5 kernel udebs; it's under 200 mb without them). To add full 2.6 support, we would need to add a vmlinux file and an initrd for the 2.6 kernel (3.9

2 questions

2004-04-21 Thread Andras Gefferth
Dear Debian CD Team, I have two questions which I could find in neither the faq nor the mailing list archives. #1: what is the difference between official and unofficial CD images? Which one should I use? #2: I downloaded a DVD image with jigdo and tried to dd it to a DVD-RAM. Unfortunatelly the

Bug#244971: marked as done (incorrect (text/plain) mime type for new installer image)

2004-04-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:58:07 +0200 (MET_DST) with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#244971: incorrect (text/plain) mime type for new installer image has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt

Re: 2 questions

2004-04-21 Thread Jan Kesten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andras Gefferth schrieb: #1: what is the difference between official and unofficial CD images? Which one should I use? Hi Andras! The main difference is, that official images are build of the debian team itself. Once they are created they are not

Re: Re: 2 questions

2004-04-21 Thread Andras Gefferth
Jan, thanks for your quick answer! The main difference is, that official images are build of the debian team itself. Once they are created they are not changed and (more important) the are fairly tested. If the webpage maintainer reads this: would be good to see this in the FAQ. Are there