Re: ia64 testers wanted for sarge cds

2003-10-07 Thread Richard Hirst
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:07:18PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > Peter, please reply to the lists, I don't know a thing about ia64 and people > on the lists can help us with this kind of things ;-) > > On Oct 07 2003, Peter Chubb wrote: > > > "Santiago" == Santiago Garcia Mantinan <

Re: ia64 testers wanted for sarge cds

2003-10-07 Thread Richard Hirst
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:07:18PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > Peter, please reply to the lists, I don't know a thing about ia64 and people > on the lists can help us with this kind of things ;-) > > On Oct 07 2003, Peter Chubb wrote: > > > "Santiago" == Santiago Garcia Mantinan <

Re: ia64 testers wanted for sarge cds

2003-10-07 Thread Richard Hirst
Hi Khalid, On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:31:44PM -0600, Khalid Aziz wrote: > I tried the netinstall CD image on an HP zx2000 and didn't get very far. > Here are the two problems I saw that prevented me from going any > further: > > 1. Selecting "Detect a keyboard and select layout" causes: > >

Re: ia64 testers wanted for sarge cds

2003-10-07 Thread Richard Hirst
Hi Khalid, On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:31:44PM -0600, Khalid Aziz wrote: > I tried the netinstall CD image on an HP zx2000 and didn't get very far. > Here are the two problems I saw that prevented me from going any > further: > > 1. Selecting "Detect a keyboard and select layout" causes: > >

Re: Sorting boot images into the beginning of the CD.

2002-06-24 Thread Richard Hirst
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:43:49PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > According to Christian Perle, one of the guys hacking privately on > KNOPPIX, the image must be somewhere in the beginning of the CD. Sounds like a good idea to me, and may be more important for DVDs, where a boot image above 2G or 4

Re: Custom cd's

2002-06-01 Thread Richard Hirst
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 01:04:30PM -0400, Ed Street wrote: > Hello, > > I tried one of those, had to do some hack for bf2.4. This I what I'm > trying to do. I have a dump/restore image file or about 40 megs (cd #2) > I boot with cd #1 w/ bf 2.4 and base only (but I need the dump/restore > packa

Re: Custom cd's

2002-06-01 Thread Richard Hirst
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:20:21AM -0400, Ed Street wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if anyone know of any methods where I could customize a > debian cd set with just the packages I want and scaled down so it would > fit on a mini and/or business card/credit card cd. To give you some > idea t

Re: loop problem with woody cd pre 5

2002-05-22 Thread Richard Hirst
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:46:18AM -0600, Romel Sandoval wrote: > I download the woody cd pre 5 and I have a problem during the base > system configuration, this is after the installation system suggest me > to reboot the machine: The time zone and password configuration have get > in a loop and I

Re: boot/woody/boot-ia64 & use of links

2002-04-23 Thread Richard Hirst
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:47:11PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Hi, > > I notice that boot-ia64 doesn't work for 1_NONUS, because it does a cd > to CD1, rather than $CDDIR. > > Also, I notice that it populates the $CDDIR/install directory with > symlinks, which IIRC results in something not terr

Re: Last debian-cd updates before release

2002-04-23 Thread Richard Hirst
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:13:19PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi people, > > i just committed the last changes that I wanted to make before the > release. I just built an ia64 set using cvs debian-cd, and the first disk has .disk/kernel_installable, but it does not have .disk/base_installab

Re: boot/woody/boot-ia64 & use of links

2002-04-23 Thread Richard Hirst
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:47:11PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Also, I notice that it populates the $CDDIR/install directory with > symlinks, which IIRC results in something not terribly useful on > Windoze. Just tested this, and my windoze 98 box shows symlinks as 0 length files. If this is co

new menu frontend to isolinux

2002-04-19 Thread Richard Hirst
(sent to debian-boot a couple of days ago, but maybe more interest here) Hi, I'm doing some work for HP creating various flavours of bootable CDs, and am using isolinux for i386. It occurred to me that the isolinux work might be useful for improving the interface for the first i386 install CD.

Re: debian-cd single cd creation: Tasksel question

2002-03-21 Thread Richard Hirst
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:40:07AM -0300, Pablo Lorenzzoni wrote: > Can I solve this with indices/override.woody.main ? I beleive so; it certainly used to be the case that tasksel would only display tasks for which it found Task: lines in the Packages file, and those lines are as a result o

Re: cross-build

2001-11-28 Thread Richard Hirst
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:19:03PM +0100, Jochen Roehrig wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to build a CD-set for one platform, say s390, on another > platform, say i386, by simply replacing the line > > export ARCH=`dpkg --print-installation-architecture` > > in CONF.sh with > > export ARC

Re: Problems controlling the content on CD one

2001-11-16 Thread Richard Hirst
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 08:01:05PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I'm building a custum debian CD for the norwegian linux for schools > project, and am using debian-cd to do this. I've had some problems > getting the build system to do what I want, but hoped I had this under > control, Al

Re: Bug#113794: Woody new install, problems with tasksel

2001-09-28 Thread Richard Hirst
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 07:12:19PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > What is the "Task: override" ? I know that packages have a Task: field but > is there an override file like for sections ? This is my understanding... There is an extra-overrides file (maybe several?) which are not currently mirr

Problems with tasksel on woody/sid cd install

2001-09-28 Thread Richard Hirst
Hi, I'm building sid ia64 ISOs for testing, and have a problem with tasksel. I install from one of these CDs and specify only the CD as an apt source. When the installer tries to run tasksel, tasksel just exits. The problem seems to be that there are no Task: tags in my Package files. It app

Re: problems in building hppa cds

2001-09-11 Thread Richard Hirst
Hi, This problem is because I changed the boot-floppies build to name the kernel 'linux' rather than 'vmlinux', and we havn't uploaded a new bf-images since. My debian-cd changes expect the new name. I'll get new hppa boot floppies uploaded asap. Sorry about that. Richard On Wed, Sep 12, 20