Re: installation CD/DVD of ia64 is not being recognized on boot

2008-03-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 06 March 2008, Rudolf Hellmuth wrote: A month ago, I installed Debian Etch in a i386 laptop and became very happy with it. Now I'm trying to install in my ia64 desktop, but the the media, either CD or DVD (both disc 1 of 40r3), aren't being recognized on boot. I haven't got any

Re: No kernel nor initrd in /boot after first reboot

2008-02-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Alain wrote: I'm trying to make my own Debian CD with preseeded choices and some extra packages. I picked a debian_40r1_i386_kde_CD_1 ISO file and hacked it to use a preseed file and added those extra packages I want tu use. Everything seems to work right, but

Re: Bug#466991: Package: installation-reports

2008-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 466991 debian-cd thanks On Friday 22 February 2008, Chris Dent wrote: Comments/Problems: The problem is that with Sony Sonic CD burner a 4.7Gb disk can only hold 4.1Gb of data, too little to contain DVD-1 (4.4Gb). Maybe reduce the contents a little to allow for similar fault

Re: kernel modules mismatch

2008-02-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Gian Sartor wrote: I am having some trouble with some DVD's I created from an internal mirror of etch. I get a message that No kernel modules were found. This may be due to a mismatch in the installer kernel and the kernel available in the archive. I have two

Re: kernel modules mismatch

2008-02-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Gian Sartor wrote: Gian Sartor wrote: Thanks for that. My problem appears to be that I am missing the /cdrom/pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-* directory from my install media. So there must be something wrong with my config file to create the dvd's as the dir

Re: Getting the Udebs for a custom debian build

2008-02-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 07 February 2008, Derek Wueppelmann wrote: Is there a way to use something like apt to pull down the latest versions of the udebs needed to create a debian-cd? All the methods I've seen so far either require you to build them all, or download an existing ISO and copy them from

Re: D-I Etch+1/2 CD images (was: D-I Etch+1/2 kernel selection)

2008-02-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 08 February 2008, dann frazier wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:01:53PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I have just discussed this on #debian-cd with Sledge, and we've come up with the following (rather brilliant) proposal. [...] Let me try and reiterate some points of your proposal

Re: D-I Etch+1/2 CD images (was: D-I Etch+1/2 kernel selection)

2008-02-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 04 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: The required patches for the installer are attached. I have successfully tested them using a custom built netinst CD that had both the 2.6.18 and 2.6.22-686 kernels on it. The needed changes to D-I have now all been uploaded. - There has as yet

Re: D-I Etch+1/2 kernel selection (was: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline)

2008-02-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, dann frazier wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:53:43AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Finally I created the etch-support udeb which does two things: 1) add an early base-installer hook script that sets the 'altmeta' template 2) add an partman init.d hook script

D-I Etch+1/2 kernel selection (was: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline)

2008-02-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 03 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: I have been quite disappointed that there was no real follow-up to my mails, which now leaves us in the situation that there is basically no support yet to select the correct kernel for etch+1/2. Being the sucker that I am, I did start to look

Re: CD vendor new data

2008-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 01 February 2008, Juan Manuel wrote: I am the 3rd vendor in the Argentinian table, and the DistroRosario link is pointing to: http://www.distrorosario.com.ar/web/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?ke ywords=debian but it should point to: http://distrorosario.com.ar/debian.htm

Re: Sarge r7 CDs released

2008-01-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:12:11PM +0100, Jens Franik wrote: Guten Tag Mattias Wadenstein, am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008 um 10:29 schriebst Du: But the only item, which has been downloaded until now is the Update-i386-DVD with 1,26 Mb -

Re: Sarge r7 CDs released

2008-01-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Steve McIntyre wrote: How about just removing the directory for bittorent and any links to it for oldstable? If we cannot seed the images and they unlikely to get seeded much by others, should we really offer bittorent at all? Wouldn't it be better to just offer

Re: Sarge r7 CDs released

2008-01-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: An alternative, that I've been thinking that we should include in the torrents is: http://getright.com/seedtorrent.html But it requires some changes in how torrents are currently generated (either switch of generating software or some

Re: Custom Debian Installer CD

2008-01-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Derek Wueppelmann wrote: I was wondering if there was any good documentation or a HowTo somewhere that would help me create a custom Debian Installer CD. I basically want to use the standard debian installer, package a subset of the debs on the CD and instead of

Re: Proposal for SVN repo reorganization

2008-01-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 17 January 2008, Frans Pop wrote: I had a look at the structure of the SVN repository and got completely confused fairly quickly. There seem to be both tags and (obsolete) branches on the highest level and for example the Sarge build branch on farbor currently isn't checked

Proposal for SVN repo reorganization

2008-01-16 Thread Frans Pop
I had a look at the structure of the SVN repository and got completely confused fairly quickly. There seem to be both tags and (obsolete) branches on the highest level and for example the Sarge build branch on farbor currently isn't checked in. A lot of names are inconsistent. Here's a

Bug#410418: includes dependencies of excluded packages on the cd, making netinst huge

2008-01-04 Thread Frans Pop
tags 410418 - pending thanks I've decided to remove the pending tag as the change I committed does not really solve the issue identified by Joey. Quoting his analysis: Ok, a lot of unncessary stuff including this is getting pulled onto the netinst due to debian-cd's annoying behavior of

Bug#410418: includes dependencies of excluded packages on the cd, making netinst huge

2008-01-02 Thread Frans Pop
tags 410418 pending thanks Triggered by the patch recently sent to the d-cd list by Petter and a few discussions with Steve, I've just committed a patch that reduces the size of images again. Instead of including _all_ alternative dependencies, debian-cd will now always include only the first

Re: debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso

2007-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 26 December 2007, Michael wrote: I burned this image and tried to install it. It booted, asked for language, country, keyboard, and then scanned the cd. It returned with a screen that started with No kernel modules are installed on this cd.. I fixed this last week, but

Re: bug in debian installer cd?

2007-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/ It is the December 17th, 2007 build. My issue is that the installer complains it can't find kernel modules for the installer kernel on the cd image, and says the install will fail. If I proceed with the install, it does indeed

Re: Change how debian-cd include recommended packages?

2007-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
[Petter Reinholdtsen] Any comments? Any idea how to change debian-cd to make it behave this way? I believe this patch solve it. It will first check all the packages listed in the OR list to see if any of them are already included. If none of them are included, the first of the

Re: Bug#457508: (no subject)

2007-12-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 23 December 2007, Henry de Valence wrote: After getting the No kernel modules found message, I do go back and then in the menu choose to open a shell. (just making sure that's the right way to do that) Yep, that's one way. Another would just be switching to VT2 or VT3 using alt-Fx

Re: Malayalam fonts are not getting installed

2007-12-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 17 December 2007, Christian Perrier wrote: Actually, active tasks, for languages that we really propose in D-I, that are missing in tasks.list are: Added (in alphabetical order). Christian: please also consider my other question about the sort order. I saw that Joey committed my

Re: Malayalam fonts are not getting installed

2007-12-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 16 December 2007, Praveen A wrote: 2007/12/16, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are the Malayalam desktop packages included on the DVD (check under the pool/main/ subdirectory)? The DVD contains ttf-indic-fonts directory and it has devanagari (hindi), panjabi, tamil and bengali fonts

Re: etch+1/2 D-I options (was: Meeting for etch and a half)

2007-12-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 14 December 2007, you wrote: 2) Creating a second Etch installer based on the new kernel --- Not saying its a good idea, but what would be the issues with creating additional flavors of select etch installers builds? e.g.,

Re: etch+1/2 D-I options (was: Meeting for etch and a half)

2007-12-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 13 December 2007, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Frans Pop wrote: Yes. One using the Lenny installer and only including the kernel images for the new Etch kernel. The image list sounds good to me. But which archs did you have in mind? That's not really up to me, but having

etch+1/2 D-I options (was: Meeting for etch and a half)

2007-12-12 Thread Frans Pop
(Not CCing -release, -kernel and -x as I assume the relevant people will be subscribed to the project list. Please follow-up to all three lists.) On Tuesday 23 October 2007, dann frazier wrote: Now that 2.6.23 is out and the proposed timeframe for etch 1/2 is just over two months away, its

Re: etch+1/2 D-I options (was: Meeting for etch and a half)

2007-12-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 12 December 2007, Frans Pop wrote: (Not CCing -release, -kernel and -x as I assume the relevant people will be subscribed to the project list. Please follow-up to all three lists.) Note: the original mail did not reach the etch+1/2 list because I was given the wrong address

Re: etch+1/2 D-I options (was: Meeting for etch and a half)

2007-12-12 Thread Frans Pop
(No need to CC me; I'm subscribed to the debian-boot list.) On Thursday 13 December 2007, Andrew McGlashan wrote: I am essentially a novice in this area, but what is wrong with leaving the installer as is -- especially netinst? The kernel could be upgraded post install if required. I love

Re: etch+1/2 D-I options (was: Meeting for etch and a half)

2007-12-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 13 December 2007, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Frans Pop wrote: Note that my options 3 and 4 basically _are_ your option 5: the official Etch installer is not touched. Okay, so option 4 includes the building of a netinst image then? Yes. One using the Lenny installer and only

Wrapper script for easy CD creation using debian-cd

2007-12-11 Thread Frans Pop
Hi folks, I've been using a wrapper script around the debian-cd build.sh script for some time and an very happy with it, especially as I now have things set up so that I can very easily include both custom packages and custom udebs. The scripts and a README explaining things are available

Bug#451237: debian-cd: list2cds add_package() needs some love

2007-11-14 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debian-cd Version: 3.0.3 The log for list2cds currently has for _all_ packages: Adding package to CD 1 ... I.e. the CD counter never increases. This makes the log somewhat confusing. Also, the image size increases to infinity: $cd_size = 17049601950, $size = 76764 The fact that the

Re: Bug#448995: installation-reports Debian-installer bug

2007-11-04 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 448995 debian-cd severity 448995 important thanks On Friday 02 November 2007, Alexander wrote: Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-dvd/ 7611d872ca9f6425d6cbccb140da989e debian-testing-i386-DVD-1.iso 29-Oct-2007 Date: 02.11.2007 Just verified

New README page on debian CD

2007-09-26 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, I've just seen the new README page on the CD images. Very nice improvement, but I do have a few comments. IMO the default font (at 16px) is way too big. Something like 11px or 12px would make the normal text much more readable. Isn't it preferred prctice to specify relative font sizes

Problem using zsync for daily images

2007-09-24 Thread Frans Pop
I tried zsync today, but using the default download location this resulted in: $ zsync http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso.zsync 100.0% 124.4 kBps DONE reading seed file

Re: testing weekly builds not updated

2007-06-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 June 2007 19:38, Carlos Dávila wrote: I would like to know why testing weekly builds are not currently updated in http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ Last update was on 28th of May. Because rebuilding them now would only result in completely broken and unusable

Re: CD DVD distribution of Debian distribution software

2007-05-27 Thread Frans Pop
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Bug#425600: debian-cd: should include local packages when checking for base_installable

2007-05-22 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debian-cd Severity: minor Version: 3.0.2 Tags: patch If a newer version of a package wanted by debootstrap to install the base system is included in the local repository, debian-cd correctly includes it on the CD. But, when checking if the base system is installable (function

Re: new mirror

2007-05-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 18 May 2007 14:13, Sean Redmond wrote: http mirror http://mirror.how2linux.net/debian/ updated by rysnc 100mb/s usa Please use the form below to submit a new mirror: http://www.debian.org/mirror/submit Cheers, FJP pgpkad7gUNAEN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#423835: debian-cd: Incorrect md5sum for Packages.gz files in Release file

2007-05-14 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debian-cd Version: 3.0.2 Severity: serious Tags: patch I'm classifying this as serious as this makes the Release file invalid and thus breaks the CD image. I found this bug because debootstrap threw an error during an installation that Packages.gz was invalid. The install did

Bug#423459: debian-cd: No longer supports adding packages from a local repository

2007-05-11 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debian-cd Version: 3.0.2 Severity: important While in Bhutan, I did some work adding packages from a local repository to CDs. This worked fine then (before the debian-cd restructuring) by setting LOCAL=1 and having LOCALDEBS point to some directory outside the mirror. The current

Bug#423463: debian-cd: Release file for Sarge (oldstable) has Suite: stable

2007-05-11 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debian-cd Version: 3.0.2 Severity: important The following snippet from start_new_disk looks incorrect: snip if [ $DEBVERSION != testing ] ; then RDATE=`awk '/^Date:/ { print $2,$3,$4,$5}' dists/$CODENAME/Release` sed -i -e s/^Suite: .*$/Suite: stable/

Re:

2007-05-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 06:52, Brian Morris wrote: please provide us with updated images so that I and others with slow internet/ multiple machine needs for cd images can do our updates. The m68k architecture is currently not in testing (a consequence of it not being an Etch release

Re: From an Indian Debian User

2007-05-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 07 May 2007 11:36, Soumen Biswas wrote: We are using Debian as gateway , dns, mail, www server from year 2002. Your lastest release etch is very useful to me. Since I have downloaded fisrt five cd-iso , i am unable to trace hamradio section software. Can u please write me the cd-iso

Re: Bug#422620: Broken link to torrent files

2007-05-07 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 422620 cdimage.debian.org thanks Reassigning to the debian-cd team as that is responsible for these pages. On Monday 07 May 2007 13:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The page http://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/ has links to 'Official weekly torrents for the testing distribution on CD'.

Re: Bug#422075: installation-report: multi-arch chose i386 instead of amd64

2007-05-03 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 422075 debian-cd thanks On Thursday 03 May 2007 14:31, Luca Capello wrote: Comments/Problems: The error at the initial boot is because the multi-arch booted on i386 instead of amd64. This resulted in a overall i386 installation (in expert mode), but with an amd64 linux image.

Re: debian-31r1-i386

2007-04-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 11:43, Lui Hin Bun wrote: I am doing a school project it is using debian-31r1-i386 DVD ISO image, when I reinstall the Debian 3.1r1, there has error say One or more packages failed to install. This may be due to bugs in the packages, .. I want to download again the

Bug#420924: cdimage.debian.org

2007-04-25 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 420924 audacious-plugins 1.2.5-1 tags 420924 + security thanks On Wednesday 25 April 2007 14:11, Alex wrote: The ISO Official i386 DVD Binary-2 conteins virus Hector.548 the packets audacious-plugins_1.2.5-1_i386.deb This packets scaning Dr.Web 4.33 for Windows Thank you for

Bug#420313: cdimage.debian.org: dists/etch/Release.gpg missing from DVD images

2007-04-21 Thread Frans Pop
tags 420313 wontfix severity 420313 wishlist thanks On Saturday 21 April 2007 17:21, Jö Fahlke wrote: The Release files on the DVD images are not signed. Aptitude complains about this with a big warning. One could disable the security features of apt since the DVDs are known to be good, but

Bug#420313: Not just aptitude

2007-04-21 Thread Frans Pop
clone 420313 -1 reassign -1 release-notes severity -1 important tags -1 - wontfix thanks (Note to submitter: if you want your follow-ups to be read by developers, do _not_ send them to bugnr[EMAIL PROTECTED], but to bugnr@b.d.o!) On Sunday 22 April 2007 01:15, Filipus Klutiero wrote: I

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 22:23, Carlos Carvalho wrote: Matt Taggart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 17 April 2007 00:59: So how about keeping around a fixed amount of CD images per arch and dropping the rest? It's too early to not have all the distribution in CDs. The main mirrors at least

Re: netinst, businesscard, and media sizes

2007-04-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 19 April 2007 02:22, Joey Hess wrote: The mini CD size is the primary target of the netinst. A secondary target is putting the netinst on a hd-media usb stick. We were not able to keep it fitting on a 128 mb stick for etch, so the current target there is 256 mb, of which ~245 mb is

Re: YOUR AUSTRIAN MIRROR mirror.gregstar.at

2007-04-17 Thread Frans Pop
Forwarding your message to the mirror team. Cheers, FJP On Tuesday 17 April 2007 16:27, HKS Industrial IT SUPPORTTEAM wrote: Hello, some information to you. The austrian mirror - mirror.gregstar.at is located in Germany - Nuernberg. Is this the real sense of a local mirror? If it is

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 19:42, Michael Loftis wrote: It's becoming prohibitively expensive for mirrors to maintain a debian mirror because of the huge amount of storage required by all of the CD/DVD images. This has been brought up before by mirror maintainers. IMH(umble)O Jigdo should be

Re: Bug#418688: d-i: Points to Sarge in sources.list

2007-04-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 13:37, Santiago Vila wrote: /cdrom/dists# ls -l total 2 dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 2007-04-07 13:29 etch lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root4 2007-04-07 13:29 frozen - etch lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root4 2007-04-07 13:29 stable - etch lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root4 2007-04-07

Re: netinstall wrong config

2007-04-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 14:22, Preiszler Péter wrote: I'm Peter from hungay, today i download a netinstall cd and i correctly install it. in the /etc/apt/sources.list file use the sarge dist name!!! That can happen if the mirror you are using has not yet updated after the release and still

Re: Linux Distributor

2007-04-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 22:29, Linux Distro UK wrote: Hello, I would like to know how to get our online linux distribution store added to your list of Debian vendors. URL: https://linux-distro.co.uk That is possible. Please follow the instructions on: http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/adding

Re: Bug#417051: installation report

2007-04-09 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 417051 debian-cd retitle 417051 -k7 kernels currently on CD4; maybe move to earlier CD? thanks On Sunday 01 April 2007 14:39, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Comments/Problems: Strange default machinename: Knoppix The Debian Installer certainly does not set that hostname as default; must

Bug#418195: netinst/bc: README contains para irrelevant

2007-04-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 08 April 2007 14:52, Richard Atterer wrote: But maybe these days even two CDs is not enough for a full desktop install?? I'm not sure. I've never looked very much at CD2. I'd expect that all the actual GNOME desktop stuff is on CD2. What would be nice to determine is if all packages

Re: multi-arch and etch (Re: [PATCH] make multi-arch CD/DVD images more visible)

2007-04-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 08 April 2007 19:36, Robert Millan wrote: Just about time. Please, can you consider doing this change really soon for www.d.o/CD/ (before we miss the just-released effect) ? As has been explained to you on IRC a while back, the multi-arch images are NOT the perfect, to be preferred

Re: Disc Testing

2007-04-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 07 April 2007 17:42, Philip Charles wrote: Tried encrypted LVM. Very slow formatting. Is this normal? Not used. LVM and non-LVM formating works with single and multiple partitions. Yes, this is normal. It writes random data to the whole disk, which obviously takes a while. The

Bug#418195: netinst/bc: README contains para irrelevant

2007-04-07 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debian-cd Version: 3.0.2 Severity: minor The README on smaller images contains a para that does not really apply to them: snip The programs on the Binary discs are ordered by popularity. The Binary-1 disc contains the most popular programs and the installation tools; it is possible to

Bug#418195: netinst/bc: README contains para irrelevant

2007-04-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 08 April 2007 01:25, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:57:23AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: +This image only contains those programs needed to install a system. During the installation you will be prompted for a network mirror from where additional programs

Re: installer sshd docs

2007-04-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 05 April 2007 23:10, Carl Karsten wrote: Where are the docs for http://packages.debian.org/stable/debian-installer/openssh-server-udeb I figured out how to get it started by dropping the needed config/key files where it wanted them, but I can't figure out how to connect: I was

Bug#416551: debian-cd: etch tasks point to sid package lists

2007-03-28 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debian-cd Version: 3.0.1 Severity: serious After building the RC2 CD images it was discovered that the Debian_etch, Debian_etch-kde and Debian_etch-xfce tasks point to debian-installer+kernel-sid instead of -etch. This could cause unexpected (and broken) CD images for anybody using

Re: Including ttf-indic-fonts in first cd

2007-03-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 18:05, Steve McIntyre wrote: How big are all the language tasks? If I select all language tasks (for just over 50 languages) I get a total download size of about 1GB (installed size is a _lot_ bigger), clearly not something that can be cramped onto the first CD :-) Per

Re: Including ttf-indic-fonts in first cd

2007-03-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 26 March 2007 18:06, Praveen A wrote: With the addition of Malayalam in the Debian etch installer, we have noticed the default installtion using Malayalam end up in a system without Malyalam fonts and hence unusable (Thanks Jinesh for pointing it out). Can ttf-indic-fonts be

Re: ping on CD

2007-03-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:51, Bhasker C V wrote: I downloaded etch DVDs and found that the console at Alt+F2 gives a shell which does not have ping utility which comes handy many places. Is there a possibility of adding ping to the CD/DVD ? Ping has been left out of the installer on

Re: ping on CD

2007-03-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:51, Bhasker C V wrote: Is there a possibility of adding ping to the CD/DVD ? As this question really is a FAQ, I've added an entry in the installer's: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FAQ It also explains _how_ wget can be used. Cheers, FJP

Re: ping on CD

2007-03-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 23:01, Richard Atterer wrote: So I would like to support the OP's request: Would it be possible to add ping despite the fact that it is not essential? Adding it to busybox would probably only add a couple kB to the installer's size. This has been discussed about 20

Fwd: Re: Debian Installer etch RC2 released

2007-03-19 Thread Frans Pop
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Debian Installer etch RC2 released Date: Monday 19 March 2007 16:18 From: Noah Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] There seems to be something wrong with the .torrents for RC2. I get rejected by tracker - Requested

Call for testing of D-I RC2 test images

2007-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
Hello, The debian-cd team has built CD/DVD images based on what's going to be Debian Installer RC2. We could use some help testing these images, especially the KDE, Xfce and multi-arch images. For multi-arch, testing both the CD and DVD is welcome. All images can be downloaded from the D-I

Re: Call for testing of D-I RC2 test images

2007-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 March 2007 15:51, Frans Pop wrote: All images can be downloaded from the D-I project page [1]. Please do not use images from other directories on the CD server than those linked from there. Note that the other images linked from the D-I project page are _not_ RC2 images

Re: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/ states SID for testing.iso

2007-03-08 Thread Frans Pop
Moving this question to debian-cd, where it belongs. Please reply only to debian-cd. On Thursday 08 March 2007 07:52, Jeff Meldrum wrote: Hi, while I was downloading the net install iso for i386 at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/i so-cd/ the web page

Re: D-I issue, or, wheres a better place for D-I issues?

2007-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 17:24, Michael Loftis wrote: We're starting to use intel blade chassis' for some of our operations here, and D-I has a learned a really ugly habit from Knoppix, that is ejecting the CD when it thinks it's done with it. D-I has always done this and it does

Re: D-I issue, or, wheres a better place for D-I issues?

2007-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
Please do _not_ CC people who obviously read the mailing list! On Wednesday 07 March 2007 17:47, Michael Loftis wrote: D-I has always done this and it does specifically warn that it is about to do it. I honestly don't recall it doing this in woody and such. It's quite likely I'm wrong

Re: Multi-arch weekly build failures

2007-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 08 March 2007 02:15, Steve McIntyre wrote: powerpc and amd64 daily builds are both being problematic atm, which is unfortunate. The moment we have a set of working boot files for both, I'll build the multi-arch discs. Apologies for the delay, normal service will be resumed ASAP.

Re: [PATCH] make multi-arch CD/DVD images more visible

2007-03-05 Thread Frans Pop
As this page is owned and maintained by the d-i project, this mail should have gone to the debian-boot list and not d-cd or d-www. Moving the mail there for proper discussion. On Monday 05 March 2007 23:40, Robert Millan wrote: I think this is very necessary given how much confusion has been

Re: [PATCH] make multi-arch CD/DVD images more visible

2007-03-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 00:03, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 23:40, Robert Millan wrote: I think this is very necessary given how much confusion has been introduced by amd64 and the intel-mac transition. Users could: 1- Confuse ia64 with amd64 (I've seen that happen

Re: Error in debian-31r5-ia64-netinst.iso (was: Re: Cd debian-31r5-ia64-netinst.iso com erro)

2007-03-05 Thread Frans Pop
(Please do not CC debian-project on this from now on.) On Tuesday 06 March 2007 03:38, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: Marco is reporting that the debian-31r5-ia64-netinst.iso has a correct MD5 but he is find 27 errors in the MD5 verification of the recorded CD. He tried the

Fwd: Re: Etch netinstaller has no eth0 in qemu

2007-03-04 Thread Frans Pop
Anything that can be done to accommodate users with _very_ slow connections? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Etch netinstaller has no eth0 in qemu Date: Sunday 04 March 2007 17:26 From: Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org On 3/4/07, Uwe Dippel

D-I RC2 - Status and schedule - Post-Etch development

2007-03-03 Thread Frans Pop
Status == After the final upload of the kernel last week, I have again started preparations for RC2. Since then all kernel udebs have been updated and uploaded and there has also been a final upload of all other components for translation updates and pending changes. Yesterday we have

Re: [stable, D-I] Kernel selection broken for some architectures

2007-03-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 March 2007 16:48, Peter Farley wrote: Will everything work OK if I just use jigdo to update my 3.1r5 iso images today? I.E., will the updated base-installer be updated in the iso image, or do I also need to wait for the jigdo files to be updated? No, you will have to wait

[stable, D-I] Kernel selection broken for some architectures

2007-03-01 Thread Frans Pop
Unfortunately we seem to have missed a change that was needed because of the ABI change in 3.1r3. We have not noticed this until now because the old kernels were still included in the archive and on CD images. With 3.1r5 the old images were removed which brought the issue to the surface. The

Re: Torrents inofficial stable amd64

2007-02-27 Thread Frans Pop
This question belongs on the debian-cd list. Forwarding there. On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:05, Jörg-Dieter Bilek wrote: Dear Debian-team, i tried several times to download the dvd-images of inofficial stable debian-31r4-amd64-binary1.iso.torrent via KTorrent. The torrents do not work. How

Re: Are hd-media builds synchronized to weekly/daily builds? (etch)

2007-02-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 25 February 2007 23:15, Doug wrote: I discovered the hd-media installer here: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/ and now I can't live without it. It seems to be working fine. My question is, if I have a weekly build (say feb 21), do I need to get a specific hd-media

Re: Updating links for r5 CD images

2007-02-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 21:52, Jens Seidel wrote: releases/sarge/debian-installer/index.wml needs to be updated too. I did mention (and update) that one :-) pgp5hynvxcCBg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#410815: ppc daily netinst CD (12-Feb-07) missing ibmveth module

2007-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
severity 410815 wishlist reassign 410815 linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6 tags 410815 pending thanks On Tuesday 13 February 2007 17:35, Cort, Tom wrote: Severity: grave This does not even come close to being grave. It is merely a request to support this driver in installations so that your

Re: i386 KDE and XFCE CD images

2007-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 03 February 2007 07:20, Don Wright wrote: Below is extracted from a session capture of building the i386 KDE CD using the most recent .jigdo and .template from cdimage.debian.org. It was produced by building the three DVD images and then mounting them by loopback under /mnt. Then

Re: Debian CD testing-ia64-CD-1.iso not booting!

2007-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 27 January 2007 19:30, André wrote: Hi, today i downloaded the weekly build iso binary CD 1 from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ia64/iso-cd/debian-test ing-ia64-CD-1.isoand i confirm the md5sums were found to be correct. I burned this into a CD-R using cdrecord

Re: unofficial NETINST etch image build problem

2007-01-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 11:10, Georgi Alexandrov wrote: I use export INSTALLER_CD=2 in the CONF.sh file (d-i + base). Try also setting DISKTYPE=NETINST. Cheers, FJP pgps8EIEfATwz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: unofficial NETINST etch image build problem

2007-01-24 Thread Frans Pop
(No need to CC us, we obviously read the list.) On Wednesday 24 January 2007 14:16, Georgi Alexandrov wrote: Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 11:10, Georgi Alexandrov wrote: I use export INSTALLER_CD=2 in the CONF.sh file (d-i + base). Try also setting DISKTYPE=NETINST

Re: unofficial NETINST etch image build problem

2007-01-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:36, Georgi Alexandrov wrote: OK, I found what the problem was. You need to explicitly set TASK in CONF.sh (kind of noted on the INSTALLER_CD option but was left overlooked) or the Makefile defaults it to $(BASEDIR)/tasks/Debian_$(CODENAME). No, you shouldn't.

Re: unofficial NETINST etch image build problem

2007-01-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:48, Frans Pop wrote: See the code in build.sh: if TASK is not set, TASK will be automatically determined based on the value of INSTALLER_CD (and COMPLETE will be set automatically as well). Note that you currently do need to set both INSTALLER_CD and DISKTYPE

Re: A first test report on multiarch DVD

2007-01-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 19:46, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: 3. manual section 2.1.5 states that in order to fully use an SMP system you need to run an SMP kernel. Is this still true with newer kernel packages? Is this applicable to multi core CPU like this one? This has already been corrected in

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