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

Steve McIntyre writes: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:17:08PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 06:58:52PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> >>I've added code into debian-cd to generate images with firmware on the >>first CD. Add "FORCE_FIRMWARE=1" in CONF.sh. I've also twea

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

Steve McIntyre writes: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 03:06:14PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >>On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 14:30 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> For the last few builds, the i386/amd64/powerpc sid netinst image has >>> become too big to fit on one CD any more. The following packages are >>>

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

Joey Hess writes: > Steve McIntyre wrote: >> There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common) >> using CDs and DVDs to seed a mirror on a Windows server. > > If I had to chose between that working, and not needing to worry about > filename lengths, I'd choose the latter. > >>

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

Andreas Metzler writes: > In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general Joey Hess wrote: >> Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common) >>> using CDs and DVDs to seed a mirror on a Windows server. > >> If I had to chose between that working, and not needi

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

Philipp Kern writes: > On 2011-04-03, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> OTOH, do you really want to type >> "apt-get install package-with-policy-compliant-utterly-long-silly-name"? >> There's a point when package name lengths become problematic, and that >> isn't just true for ISO images. > > That's why

Bug#658352: 4k Advanced format

shirish शिरीष writes: > at bottom :- > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 19:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> Hi, > > > > Getting a little sideways here :- > >> I am clueless enough to look into wikipedia about GUID Partition Table. >> The is room for a "Protective MBR" of 512 bytes. >> So somebody

Re: Planning for final lenny point release (5.0.10)

"Adam D. Barratt" writes: > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 23:05 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> Working on the four-monthly schedule for oldstable, the next lenny point >> release would be due in early February. >> >> As the security team have recently confirmed that security support for >> lenny will

Re: Missing Packages.gz file in debian-6.0.7-amd64-DVD-8.iso image

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 04:25:43PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 04:54:20PM +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: > >Hi, > > > >In debian-6.0.0-amd64-DVD-8.iso image the file Packages.gz exist but > >in debian-6.0.7-amd64-DVD-8.iso it doesn't! > >This cause an "apt-get update" erro

Re: DOUBTS installing home-server through the Internet

"Pablo J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to use CD-minimun to install through the Internet but... > > if a want to create a poor P-II server... > > What flavor can I use ? > > What .iso file download for burning the CD instaler ? > > And which mirror download from ?? > > Pablo J. [E

Re: businesscard iso

"Dave Henderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian Team, > >   > > I am working on a project where space is at a premium so I started to > look over the Debian web site for smaller packages than the base install from > a regular install CD.  I noticed that there is one called a businessc

Re: Network Install

"Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will the network install of debian work if your connected to a router via > wireless with WEP enabled or would I have to use the full CD set in that > case? > > Ian Balls. That depends on _the_ network install. Not sure which or if any of the unofficial ima

Re: DOUBTS installing home-server through the Internet

Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://cdimages.debian.org/ > > And use images for woody sinc hyare known to work. You can upgrade > later at any time if you feel like you need to. And use images for woody since they are known to work. You can upgrade later

Re: free cd burning programs

"henny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi > > i wont take up much of ur time. Can u recommend a free cd burning > software program that i can download on to my hard? > > thanks > >   http://packages.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Debian-cd 2.2.16 uploaded, any co-maintainers ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello Raphael > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I finally uploaded debian-cd 2.2.16 to unstable. But I've been way too > > long in doing that and that reminds me that I really should find some > > co-maintainers in order to avoid such delays in the future. > > > > So, ar

debian-cd questions [Was: Re: Debian-cd 2.2.16 uploaded, any co-maintainers ?]

Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:05:16PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow écrivait: > > > > The package is not in a bad shape (there's only one wishlist bug open) > > > > but from time to time it requires immediate attenti

Re: debian-cd questions [Was: Re: Debian-cd 2.2.16 uploaded, any co-maintainers ?]

Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:12:50AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow écrivait: > > I need different kernel images (building them atm), different > > ramdisks (those debix will build via debix-imager), and the normal > > ramdisk o

Re: A simple question about downloading debian-30r1-i386-binary-x.iso's

Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:16:24AM +, john smith wrote: > > A simple question about downloading debian-30r1-i386-binary-x.iso's > > > > Im currently wishing to download Linux, and was just wondering if i had to > > download all of the ISO's on th

Re: Jigdo Automation

Roger Guenter Trott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everybody, > > i would like to use jigdo to keep my SID cd rom images up to date. > > My problem is as follows: I want to do this automatically at night > (means no user interaction :-)) > > It is no problem to get 11 loop mounts, but i ca

Re: Making unofficial extension CDs

Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there an online reference that describes how the Debian > archives are constructed? Such as how "Packages.gz" gets > built, etc? man dpkg-scanpackages man dpkg-scansources As to the Release files there is some docs in apt but I think its mostly l

Re: installatin

"Matthias Tepe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > da mein cd laufwerk nicht von der demian cd booted, boote ich mit einer win 98 > cd, wechsel dann die > > cd und starte auf der demian cd im ordner install die boot datei. > > ich verstehe zwar nicht warum die demian cd nicht automatisch booted und d

Re: custom cd

"St Francis Team" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sir, > > > We tried to prepare bootable cd using knoppix remastering howto steps . > However the cd did not boot. Are there some steps to load boot.img boot.cat? > We had just copied them from knoppix 3.2 cd using "cp" command. > > Please help.

Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

Mattias Wadenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suspect I'm not the only one that thinks that this might be a good idea. > I'm actually planning on offering this, what I'd like feedback on is how > official it should be. mldonkey urls should also be provided. Thats even easier than bittorrent

Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

jason andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 5 Oct 2003, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > It would be good if debian had an official tracker (doesn't need to > > have the image but it would be good). > > [...] > > > I'm all for it. Bitto

Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

Patrick Strasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > > [about offering Debian CD-images via BitTorrent] > > I suspect I'm not the only one that thinks that this might be a good idea. > > I'm actually planning on offering this, what I'd like feedback on is how > > official it

Re: Dedication to 'Espy' still on CDs?

Frank Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. > > I', testing sarge netinst iso and I've noticed, that there are > still those files about dedication to Joel 'Espy' Klecker, > which were introduced for _potato_ and were also on _woody_ discs. > > With all respect to him, isn't time to remove tho

Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 02:05:58PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > >Jigdo produces a good initial template image that often needs further > >repairs by rsync. > > ??? What makes you say this? I've never

Re: Sarge-Installation: dpkg: error processing

Martin Sjögren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I bet, udebs (like udpkg, rootskel,...) aren't meant to be installed on > a normal Debian system. > > > rootskel template parse error: Template #7 in /tmp/template.2.7.910 doesn't cont > > in a 'Template:' line > > dpkg: error processing > > Errors we

Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

Christian Leber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 03:10:29PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Or a bittoggler that goes undetected by the TCP checksums. > > It's very unlikely because the jigdo files have md5 > checksum's for

Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

Christian Leber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 04:22:49PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > And if they detect an error? > > I would rerun jigdo, i think it would download the file again. > If this would fail I would report this to th

Re: [joeyh@debian.org: Bug#215469: don't include unnecessary udebs on the cd]

Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I just got this bug. It looks like we aren't smart enough about the > selection of udebs to include on the CD ... > > The initial idea was to include them all so that all install scenario > can happen but it looks like there are udebs whic

Packaging debian-installer images for upload and to where?

Hi, debian-installer has two problems that need a decision soon: 1. Where will debian-installer images be placed? We have floppy, cdrom, netboot and hd-install images ranging from 1.4 MB floppies, 5-20MB netboot/hd-install images and 5/20/50MB cdrom isos. Total 100-150 MB per arch. I

Re: Installations-Images

Jürgen Siepmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo, > > mir ist unklar, weshalb auf > > http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > Inoffizielle Netz-Installations-Images für das "stable" Release > und > Offizielle Netz-Installations-Images für das "testing" Release > > angeboten werden. > > Gibt

Re: cds

"JeffMacko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian: > > I can't seem to find anyone to tell me the diff. from scsi and regular > burning[writing]. Is there an accuracy diff. why pay so much more for scsi. I > want to buy an 8cd burner but I don't want drop out or anything half way > thru. Is scsi m

Re: apt-get

"Mathieu R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > HI > is the function "apt-get update/upgrade" available with the DOWNLOADED > version of debian 30r1 ? There is Debian, the whole of Debian and only Debian. Doesn't matter where you get it from, apt-get is apt-get. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

Santiago Garcia Mantinan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Umm, seems like we go again for the same discusion, ok, I've been gathering > some old links to try to shorten this. > > The isolinux / multiboot / boot floppy emulation (syslinux) decision was > already discussed for woody, at that time I wa

List of udebs to be included on the CDs

Hi, as promised I cleaned up the list of udebs that should be present on the CDs: The lists are in http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/build/pkg-lists/mirror_udeb/ The lists contain all udebs that aren't obsolete (like the out-of-date gtk udebs) and aren't already on the cdroms initrd. That m

Re: Problems with Sarge netinst and Yaboot

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I've just bought a PowerBook G4 12". > > I have downloaded the Beta1 of Sarge NetInst for PowerPC (November 9th) > and I have got a problem at the beginning of the installation. > > I enter Open Firmware, and then boot with: > boot cd:\\yaboot > > And then I ge

Re: Some observations about Debian installation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: > I'm just gone through a new Debian installation process and think I know > a little bit what's wrong. > > 1. The current stable release (3.0r1) is just outdated. > 2. There are way too many show stoppers in the testing release (3.1) > installation > > 1. t

Re: System Question

"Mauricio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'm going to download de Debian CD Images for my computer. It's an AMD Athlon XP > 1700+. Wich version I must download? the Intel-Compatible or other one? > > Other question I want to do: is there a new stable version near from now to be > co

Re: broken link

Josef Frühwirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > I hope i`m sending this to the right adress. > > On page > > http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > the link > > Official "testing" images > > leads to an access error! > > May be this i

Re: dependency problem

tej trivedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi! > >   > > i am a new user to knoppix.i wanted to know whether there is any command by > which i can find the list of packages that i can safely remove while > remastering knoppix cd. i haved made 2 remastered knoppix CDs, but the problem > is that on

Re: Not usefull kernel images take all first Debian sarge CD :(

Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting Adam Majer: > > I agree. This is crazzy. But how the heck do you get this? > > > > > kernel-image-2.4.22-xfs - ~22 Mb > > > kernel-image-2.4.22-i386 - ~78 Mb > > > [...] > > So even if you had 8 kernels, that would be 80M. To occup

Re: Not usefull kernel images take all first Debian sarge CD :(

Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ removing debian-devel which is not really necessary but added > debian-boot ] > > Quoting Goswin von Brederlow: > > Test and pre kernels could be kept in sid exclusively. > > They could, but for the moment they are

Re: Debian DVD

"Marco Terzuoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > I am due to download the latest Debian release but, before doing so, would > like to know if there is, in addition to the 7 CD version, a DVD version, > which would be more comfortable. If not, is there any plan to make a DVD > version of Debi

Re: m68k daily cd patch

Stephen R Marenka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would someone please apply the following patches? m68k needs these for > daily sarge cds to be useful. > > The first is due to a kernel build-dep problem and keeps an install from > completing. The second is some cleanup. > > Thanks, > > Stephen > >

Re: boot-cd

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I have an easy question. > > Which CD-Image is for booting? > > I have download "sarge-i386-1.iso" but when I boot from it the programm it stops. > > I see only the starting screen where you can select F1 or BOOT, then it break off. > > Send me a link or a

Bug#208736: corrupt file in Debian

Mejo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve Powell wrote: > >> I've downloaded the disk 1 iso for Debian 3.0r2 from two different places >> and burnt CD's 3 different times and I always get that same error during >> install -- >> file: /instmnt/pool/main/b/bash/bash_2.05a-11_i386.deb was corrupt > >

Re: m68k daily cd patch

Stephen R Marenka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 03:53:40PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Stephen R Marenka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > +filesutils >> >> filesutils? Not fileutils? > > Fortunately, it'

Grub boot floppy on D-I i386 CD images

Hi, would it be possible to include a grub boot floppy image on the i386 CDs and add it to the multiboot menu (and/or put it on one of the other CDs). For cases where the grub-installer doesn't work people could then boot grub and install directly form the grub shell. MfG Goswin -- To

Re: mipsel cd images available for testing

Santiago Garcia Mantinan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > Today we have produced our first set of mipsel cd images of testing, they > have not yet been tested, so we need people with cd equiped mipsel machines > to test the new images, they are available at the usual place, which for > mipsel

Re: Fulfilling our source obligation

Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Matt Taggart] >> In the process of giving out all these CDs it occurred to me that >> Debian could make it easier for people giving out CDs to fulfill >> their source obligation(required by some licenses like the GPL) by >> creating an ISO image t

Re: A few problems with incuding local packages

Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 05:35:48PM +0900, Horms wrote: >> 2. The $PREFIX.generate-binary-debian-installer file created for >>a local instance of the debian installer is bogus as it lacks >>the FileList line. >> >>This means that the resulting

Re: AMD64 CDs

Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 03:23:14AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: >>Did I miss anything about this? I would like to add those >>netinst images to my daily builds for ages but I never was able >>to make it build properly. > > I've not really looked into the

Re: AMD64 CDs

Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 05:45:18PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>As for debian-cd: What do you think about adding an option to use >>different archs for the debs and

Re: businesscard iso

"Dave Henderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian Team, > >   > > I am working on a project where space is at a premium so I started to > look over the Debian web site for smaller packages than the base install from > a regular install CD.  I noticed that there is one called a businessc

Re: Network Install

"Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will the network install of debian work if your connected to a router via > wireless with WEP enabled or would I have to use the full CD set in that > case? > > Ian Balls. That depends on _the_ network install. Not sure which or if any of the unofficial ima

Re: DOUBTS installing home-server through the Internet

"Pablo J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to use CD-minimun to install through the Internet but... > > if a want to create a poor P-II server... > > What flavor can I use ? > > What .iso file download for burning the CD instaler ? > > And which mirror download from ?? > > Pablo J. [E

Re: DOUBTS installing home-server through the Internet

Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://cdimages.debian.org/ > > And use images for woody sinc hyare known to work. You can upgrade > later at any time if you feel like you need to. And use images for woody since they are known to work. You can upgrade later

Re: free cd burning programs

"henny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi > > i wont take up much of ur time. Can u recommend a free cd burning > software program that i can download on to my hard? > > thanks > >   http://packages.debian.org/

Re: Debian-cd 2.2.16 uploaded, any co-maintainers ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello Raphael > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I finally uploaded debian-cd 2.2.16 to unstable. But I've been way too > > long in doing that and that reminds me that I really should find some > > co-maintainers in order to avoid such delays in the future. > > > > So, ar

debian-cd questions [Was: Re: Debian-cd 2.2.16 uploaded, any co-maintainers ?]

Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:05:16PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow écrivait: > > > > The package is not in a bad shape (there's only one wishlist bug open) > > > > but from time to time it requires immediate attenti

Re: debian-cd questions [Was: Re: Debian-cd 2.2.16 uploaded, any co-maintainers ?]

Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:12:50AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow écrivait: > > I need different kernel images (building them atm), different > > ramdisks (those debix will build via debix-imager), and the normal > > ramdisk o

Re: A simple question about downloading debian-30r1-i386-binary-x.iso's

Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:16:24AM +, john smith wrote: > > A simple question about downloading debian-30r1-i386-binary-x.iso's > > > > Im currently wishing to download Linux, and was just wondering if i had to > > download all of the ISO's on th

Re: Jigdo Automation

Roger Guenter Trott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everybody, > > i would like to use jigdo to keep my SID cd rom images up to date. > > My problem is as follows: I want to do this automatically at night > (means no user interaction :-)) > > It is no problem to get 11 loop mounts, but i ca

Re: Making unofficial extension CDs

Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there an online reference that describes how the Debian > archives are constructed? Such as how "Packages.gz" gets > built, etc? man dpkg-scanpackages man dpkg-scansources As to the Release files there is some docs in apt but I think its mostly l

Re: installatin

"Matthias Tepe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > da mein cd laufwerk nicht von der demian cd booted, boote ich mit einer win 98 > cd, wechsel dann die > > cd und starte auf der demian cd im ordner install die boot datei. > > ich verstehe zwar nicht warum die demian cd nicht automatisch booted und d

Re: custom cd

"St Francis Team" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sir, > > > We tried to prepare bootable cd using knoppix remastering howto steps . > However the cd did not boot. Are there some steps to load boot.img boot.cat? > We had just copied them from knoppix 3.2 cd using "cp" command. > > Please help.

Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

Mattias Wadenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suspect I'm not the only one that thinks that this might be a good idea. > I'm actually planning on offering this, what I'd like feedback on is how > official it should be. mldonkey urls should also be provided. Thats even easier than bittorrent

Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

jason andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 5 Oct 2003, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > It would be good if debian had an official tracker (doesn't need to > > have the image but it would be good). > > [...] > > > I'm all for it. Bitto

Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

Patrick Strasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > > [about offering Debian CD-images via BitTorrent] > > I suspect I'm not the only one that thinks that this might be a good idea. > > I'm actually planning on offering this, what I'd like feedback on is how > > official it

Re: Dedication to 'Espy' still on CDs?

Frank Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. > > I', testing sarge netinst iso and I've noticed, that there are > still those files about dedication to Joel 'Espy' Klecker, > which were introduced for _potato_ and were also on _woody_ discs. > > With all respect to him, isn't time to remove tho

Re: Sarge-Installation: dpkg: error processing

Martin Sjögren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I bet, udebs (like udpkg, rootskel,...) aren't meant to be installed on > a normal Debian system. > > > rootskel template parse error: Template #7 in /tmp/template.2.7.910 doesn't > > cont > > in a 'Template:' line > > dpkg: error processing > > Erro

Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 02:05:58PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > >Jigdo produces a good initial template image that often needs further > >repairs by rsync. > > ??? What makes you say this? I've never

Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

Christian Leber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 03:10:29PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Or a bittoggler that goes undetected by the TCP checksums. > > It's very unlikely because the jigdo files have md5 > checksum's for

Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

Christian Leber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 04:22:49PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > And if they detect an error? > > I would rerun jigdo, i think it would download the file again. > If this would fail I would report this to th

Re: [joeyh@debian.org: Bug#215469: don't include unnecessary udebs on the cd]

Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I just got this bug. It looks like we aren't smart enough about the > selection of udebs to include on the CD ... > > The initial idea was to include them all so that all install scenario > can happen but it looks like there are udebs whic

Packaging debian-installer images for upload and to where?

Hi, debian-installer has two problems that need a decision soon: 1. Where will debian-installer images be placed? We have floppy, cdrom, netboot and hd-install images ranging from 1.4 MB floppies, 5-20MB netboot/hd-install images and 5/20/50MB cdrom isos. Total 100-150 MB per arch. I

Re: Installations-Images

Jürgen Siepmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo, > > mir ist unklar, weshalb auf > > http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > Inoffizielle Netz-Installations-Images für das "stable" Release > und > Offizielle Netz-Installations-Images für das "testing" Release > > angeboten werden. > > Gibt

Re: cds

"JeffMacko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian: > > I can't seem to find anyone to tell me the diff. from scsi and regular > burning[writing]. Is there an accuracy diff. why pay so much more for scsi. I > want to buy an 8cd burner but I don't want drop out or anything half way > thru. Is scsi m

Re: apt-get

"Mathieu R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > HI > is the function "apt-get update/upgrade" available with the DOWNLOADED > version of debian 30r1 ? There is Debian, the whole of Debian and only Debian. Doesn't matter where you get it from, apt-get is apt-get. MfG Goswin

Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

Santiago Garcia Mantinan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Umm, seems like we go again for the same discusion, ok, I've been gathering > some old links to try to shorten this. > > The isolinux / multiboot / boot floppy emulation (syslinux) decision was > already discussed for woody, at that time I wa

List of udebs to be included on the CDs

Hi, as promised I cleaned up the list of udebs that should be present on the CDs: The lists are in http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/build/pkg-lists/mirror_udeb/ The lists contain all udebs that aren't obsolete (like the out-of-date gtk udebs) and aren't already on the cdroms initrd. That m

Re: Problems with Sarge netinst and Yaboot

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I've just bought a PowerBook G4 12". > > I have downloaded the Beta1 of Sarge NetInst for PowerPC (November 9th) > and I have got a problem at the beginning of the installation. > > I enter Open Firmware, and then boot with: > boot cd:\\yaboot > > And then I ge

Re: Some observations about Debian installation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: > I'm just gone through a new Debian installation process and think I know > a little bit what's wrong. > > 1. The current stable release (3.0r1) is just outdated. > 2. There are way too many show stoppers in the testing release (3.1) > installation > > 1. t

Re: System Question

"Mauricio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'm going to download de Debian CD Images for my computer. It's an AMD Athlon > XP 1700+. Wich version I must download? the Intel-Compatible or other one? > > Other question I want to do: is there a new stable version near from now to > be co

Re: broken link

Josef Frühwirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > I hope i`m sending this to the right adress. > > On page > > http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > the link > > Official "testing" images > > leads to an access error! > > May be this i

Re: dependency problem

tej trivedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi! > >   > > i am a new user to knoppix.i wanted to know whether there is any command by > which i can find the list of packages that i can safely remove while > remastering knoppix cd. i haved made 2 remastered knoppix CDs, but the problem > is that on

Re: Not usefull kernel images take all first Debian sarge CD :(

Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting Adam Majer: > > I agree. This is crazzy. But how the heck do you get this? > > > > > kernel-image-2.4.22-xfs - ~22 Mb > > > kernel-image-2.4.22-i386 - ~78 Mb > > > [...] > > So even if you had 8 kernels, that would be 80M. To occup

Re: Not usefull kernel images take all first Debian sarge CD :(

Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ removing debian-devel which is not really necessary but added > debian-boot ] > > Quoting Goswin von Brederlow: > > Test and pre kernels could be kept in sid exclusively. > > They could, but for the moment they are

Re: debmirror can't download some boot system's files

Alexander Golovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had downloaded my local Debian Etch mirror with debmirror, then I was > trying to create my dvd's. Now all is ok, except one: for create first > bootable dvd "debian-40r3-i386-DVD-1.iso" I need some files which hadn't > downloaded with debmirror:

Re: On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

Frans Pop writes: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: >> It would be nice if you (or someone else) would then explain[1] why >> having a limited set of d-i images + cd images which contained the >> non-free firmware necessary for certain hardware to boot would be an >> intractab

Re: Live 5.0.0 i386 is maybe not i386

Gary Lawrence Murphy writes: > I don't know if the mailing list accepts outside submissions; this > address is listed on the CD page as the primary contact so here goes... > > I just downloaded > http://debian.yorku.ca/debian-cd/5.0.0-live/i386/iso-cd/ and tried an > install on a 1998-vintage Com