Re: debian cd image download website

2009-09-16 Thread Maximilian Haeussler
Maximilian Haeussler,+33612827616 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:45 AM, GONG Jie gongjie@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Maximilian Haeussler maximili...@gmail.com wrote: the debian website is horribly complicated for beginners who just want to give debian a try. One

Re: debian cd image download website

2009-09-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Maximilian Haeussler wrote: Please read the installation guide before you are doing installation. [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual No. It is the other way round: One has to SELECT your architecture to read an installation guide. Users

Re: Bug#542241: simple-cdd: Deal better with non-official codenames

2009-09-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 14 September 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Well, as a debian-cd co-maintainer, I thought about this too, but I didn't like the idea very much. It would mean 2 supplementary variables that should be used instead of $CODENAME or $DI_CODENAME in various places and that should default to

Re: debian cd image download website

2009-09-16 Thread Maximilian Haeussler
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Maximilian Haeussler wrote: Please read the installation guide before you are doing installation. [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual No. It is the other way round:

Re: Bug#542241: simple-cdd: Deal better with non-official codenames

2009-09-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Frans Pop wrote: It seems a bit strange to me to have a derived distribution as CD release that's not backed up by it's own archive, and thus mirrors. I'd say that if you want to use different codenames, you should start by creating an archive that has those codenames.

Re: Bug#542241: simple-cdd: Deal better with non-official codenames

2009-09-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Now, the alternative is to not create the symlinks and have a way to tell debian-cd “well CODENAME is foo, but for boot-enabling scripts, please use those of lenny”. I agree that as simple-cdd is the wrapper here that has the goal of