Re: DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?

2011-04-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i still ponder about the supposed MBR allergy of the Macs. Maybe one should make another test by transplanting the first 32 kB of the i386 image into the first 32 kB of the sparc image. If the allergy theory is right, then that should not mount any more: dd if=debian-6.0.1a-i386-DVD-1.iso

Re: DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?

2011-04-13 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Thomas Schmitt wrote: [..] A simple solution might be little de-MBR programs in some widely available interpreter languages, which get offered for download together with the images: Seek byte 0, write 32 kB of zeros, keep all other bytes unaltered. In any language this wo

Re: DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?

2011-04-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I do confirm that after removing the isohybrid of the image, I am > able to mount it. Whew. So xorriso's ISO 9660 data are not to blame. Bad news is that obviously the mere presence of a PC-BIOS Master Boot Record keeps the operating system from mounting the image. This MBR sits in a regio

Re: DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?

2011-04-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 06:20:23PM +0100, Rui Ribeiro wrote: >I do confirm that after removing the isohybrid of the image, I am able to mount >it. OK, thanks for that test. It really does look like OSX is being a PITA. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@e

Re: DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?

2011-04-13 Thread Rui Ribeiro
I do confirm that after removing the isohybrid of the image, I am able to mount it. Rui On Apr 13, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 03:03:01PM +0100, Rui Ribeiro wrote: >> I confirm that SPARC image is mounting fine thanks. > > Bugger. Looks like OSX is demandi

Re: DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?

2011-04-13 Thread Rui Ribeiro
I confirm that SPARC image is mounting fine thanks. On Apr 13, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 02:12:45PM +0100, Rui Ribeiro wrote: >> >> The error is the following: "The following disk image could not be >> opened: debian-6.0.1a-i386-DVD-1.iso - no mountable fi

Re: DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?

2011-04-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 03:03:01PM +0100, Rui Ribeiro wrote: >I confirm that SPARC image is mounting fine thanks. Bugger. Looks like OSX is demanding things of the image that are just not reasonable then. *sigh* If you can double-check the test that Thomas suggested too, that would confirm this:

Re: DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?

2011-04-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > > The error is the following: "The following disk image could not be > > opened: debian-6.0.1a-i386-DVD-1.iso - no mountable file systems" > > We're using xorriso to generate hybrid CD > and DVD images for i386, and that may be what's throwing OSX; One may remove all isohybrid aspects by

Re: DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?

2011-04-13 Thread Rui Ribeiro
The error is the following: "The following disk image could not be opened: debian-6.0.1a-i386-DVD-1.iso - no mountable file systems" On Apr 13, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > [ Removed ftpmaster from cc: ] > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:59:42AM +0100, Rui Ribeiro wrote: >> Hi Steve,

Re: DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?

2011-04-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 02:12:45PM +0100, Rui Ribeiro wrote: > >The error is the following: "The following disk image could not be >opened: debian-6.0.1a-i386-DVD-1.iso - no mountable file systems" Hmmm. Can you try another image for me as a test please? Look at: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage

Bug#622622: Priority of i386 kernel flavours

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: debian-cd (Not sure which version is actually used for squeeze.) On i386 machines with RAM above the 4GB physical address, either PAE or LM (Long Mode, 64-bit) must be used to access that RAM. The preferred kernel flavour is '686-bigmem', with 'amd64' also being an option. However the

Re: Question about the version of debian

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 20:47 +0800, YANG,Chao wrote: > dpkg --print-architecture shows > i386. > > However, uname -a shows > x86-64 > > what does this mean? It means Asias He was right. And this is a perfectly valid configuration (though it confuses some third-party installers). But I think thi

Re: DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?

2011-04-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Removed ftpmaster from cc: ] On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:59:42AM +0100, Rui Ribeiro wrote: >Hi Steve, > >I am not able to open the ISO image with double click as usual on >snow leopard (got a error cannot open/mount .ISO), and the server >cannot find/boot the DVD. Hmmm. Do you get any useful

Re: DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?

2011-04-13 Thread Rui Ribeiro
Hi Steve, I am not able to open the ISO image with double click as usual on snow leopard (got a error cannot open/mount .ISO), and the server cannot find/boot the DVD. On Apr 13, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 08:05:33AM +0100, Rui Ribeiro wrote: >> De

Re: DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?

2011-04-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 08:05:33AM +0100, Rui Ribeiro wrote: >Dear sirs, > >I have downloaded the file debian-6.0.1a-i386-DVD-1.iso twice >yesterday. Also have checked the last time the file with md5sum. The >ISO doesnt work, it appears to be corrupted, on one server and my >personal Macbook Pro.

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2011-04-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Rui Ribeiro wrote: > I have downloaded the file debian-6.0.1a-i386-DVD-1.iso twice > yesterday. Also have checked the last time the file with md5sum. The > ISO doesnt work, it appears to be corrupted, on one server and my > personal Macbook Pro. However the md5sum is identical to your DVD > re

DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?

2011-04-13 Thread Rui Ribeiro
Dear sirs, I have downloaded the file debian-6.0.1a-i386-DVD-1.iso twice yesterday. Also have checked the last time the file with md5sum. The ISO doesnt work, it appears to be corrupted, on one server and my personal Macbook Pro. However the md5sum is identical to your DVD repository. Have yo