Re: Planning for next squeeze point release (6.0.4)

Hi! Yes, that would work for me. * Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk [120110 22:33]: press@, -live - ping? As an opening gambit, I'd propose we look at one of the following Saturdays in January: 14th, 21st, 28th. 21st and 28th (with the respective day after the actual

Re: Planning for final lenny point release (5.0.10)

Hi! Am 13.12.2011 22:52, schrieb Joerg Jaspert: For *me*, set the end point at around mid March, after that I wont guarantee availability right now. I would prefer, if we could get it done in February. Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Add an extra item to the CD faq: write image to USB

Hi! * Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com [110908 18:01]: +toc-add-entry name=write-usbHow do I write a CD image to a USB flash drive?/toc-add-entry [..] It would be cool to also add some hints how that is done on non Linux systems. Best Regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Point release schedule

Hi! Am 04.09.2011 18:14, schrieb Philipp Kern: so apparently September is a very bad month to get CDs done. I'm hereby proposing the following with the hope that we can do it that way: * Lenny: October 1st * Squeeze: October 8th Can we do that, pretty please? :) Yes, we can! (I

Re: Lots of files not found while using jigdo to get a 4.0r9 image for powerpc

Hi! Am 02.09.2011 09:51, schrieb Stephan Schulz: I'm trying to assemble the debian-40r9-powerpc-CD-1.iso using jigdo. The jigdo-file I'm using is this one: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/4.0_r9/powerpc/jigdo-cd/debian-40r9-powerpc-CD-1.jigdo which gives me in the end after a lot

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

Hi! Am 28.03.2011 11:23, schrieb Thomas Schmitt: Test reports from reading such an ISO image by a real Windows machine would be interesting ... :) E.g. with a file name of 100 characters: xorriso -as mkisofs -o test.iso -J -joliet-long -graft-points \

Live CD signed by private key

Hi! During CeBIT some (well, two or three) visitors wondered, why the Live CDs are signed by a private key, and not with the regular CD signing key (or any other generic key). As I don't know it, I hereby bring that question to your attention. Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Debian Lenny amd64 netinst CD

Hi Klaus! Am 16.02.2011 14:43, schrieb Klaus Staerk: I'm looking for a netinst ISO of Debian Lenny amd64 - unfortunately there's only Squeeze available ATM. Any idea where I can get Lenny from? Well, the Squeeze installer should also be able to install Lenny. But you can also just pick the

(fwd) Please review content squeeze release announement [toli...@debian.org]

=publicityview=log Best regards, Alexander - Forwarded message from Alexander Reichle-Schmehl toli...@debian.org - From: Alexander Reichle-Schmehl toli...@debian.org Subject: Please review content squeeze release announement To: debian-public...@lists.debian.org, debian-proj

Re: Debian 64bits.

Olá, * Prof. Dr. Reinaldo Golmia Dante tiraduvidasce...@yahoo.com [110127 14:12]: Eu gostaria de saber para o meu notebook Sony com processador i3 (Intel), qual é o Debian de 64bits: amd64 ou ia64 ? Você precisa ter a versão AMD64 do sistema. Com os melhores cumprimentos, Alexander, que

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

Hi! Am 22.07.2010 09:21, schrieb Josselin Mouette: I think with our next release, we will have got less users. Why? We stripped out all binary only firmware images from Linux and put them mostly into the non-free linux-firmware image. If you think this is a problem, you could help with

Re: Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

Hi! * Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com [100609 14:16]: * how to describe them in the README on the disc. For now I've added: This disc includes non-free firmware files to make installation easier on some systems. See http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for more details. but

Re: Suggestion: Change the link names on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/

Hi! * Gerfried Fuchs rho...@deb.at [091127 11:43]: One suggestion that is pretty easy to implement and also should be helpful straight ahead: Why not make amd64 and i386 appear in *bold* letters? Would it be to much to ask to replace the single amd64 with amd64 / Intel EM64-T (or however

Re: All the 5.0.1 ia64 images are broken, they don't boot

Hi! nakarman schrieb: I downloaded different debian-501-ia64-businesscard.iso debian-501-ia64-netinst.iso images from different servers, they all don't boot. Amd64 boots clearly on the same machine. I've checked md5 sums etc, dists are really broken. That's okay. The ia64 architecture is

Draft for lenny release announcement

[ Sorry for the cross post; just trying to make sure everyone is aware of the current state ] Hi! Attached you'll find the current draft of the announcement for the lenny release. Based upon the announcement for the last release it's far from ready :( Especially the second and third