Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-22 Thread Joe Abley
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:44:56PM +, Olafur Osvaldsson wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Wouldn't it be trivial to just mount the ISO, tar copy it, add the files then rerun mkisofs? This would result in all mirrors re-downloading the image wich is not such a

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-22 Thread Rob
Jason Andresen wrote: Bruce A. Mah wrote: Note that the set of people affected is going to be people who can't do anonymous FTP, don't have bootable CDROMs, and *only* have the ISO images to work with. I don't know for sure, but I'd expect this set to be pretty small...if they don't

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Jordan Hubbard
I seem to recall these programs were owned by WCCDROM (then BSDi, then Naw, I'd long since prunted tools/ to just the stuff that was freely redistributable. Murray simply forgot to put it on the ISOs he created. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Annelise Anderson
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Jason Andresen wrote: Is the tools directory supposed to be missing on the 4.4 CDs? I seem to recall these programs were owned by WCCDROM (then BSDi, then WRS), and there may have been problems in putting them on the

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Jordan Hubbard wrote: I seem to recall these programs were owned by WCCDROM (then BSDi, then Naw, I'd long since prunted tools/ to just the stuff that was freely redistributable. Murray simply forgot to put it on the ISOs he created. :) OK, it sounds like I

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Bruce A. Mah [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010921 09:49] wrote: If memory serves me right, Jordan Hubbard wrote: I seem to recall these programs were owned by WCCDROM (then BSDi, then Naw, I'd long since prunted tools/ to just the stuff that was freely redistributable. Murray simply forgot to

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Alfred Perlstein wrote: I don't know, missing the tool to make disk images from DOS is a pretty bad thing IMO, any way to get this fixed? I can't think of any way to do this besides re-rolling the ISO images. Note that people buying the physical CDROMs might not

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Bruce A. Mah [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010921 10:18] wrote: If memory serves me right, Alfred Perlstein wrote: I don't know, missing the tool to make disk images from DOS is a pretty bad thing IMO, any way to get this fixed? I can't think of any way to do this besides re-rolling the ISO

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Olafur Osvaldsson
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Wouldn't it be trivial to just mount the ISO, tar copy it, add the files then rerun mkisofs? This would result in all mirrors re-downloading the image wich is not such a big deal except now there are a minimum of 5 users downloading the image at

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Jason Andresen
Bruce A. Mah wrote: Note that the set of people affected is going to be people who can't do anonymous FTP, don't have bootable CDROMs, and *only* have the ISO images to work with. I don't know for sure, but I'd expect this set to be pretty small...if they don't have Internet access, how'd

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Jason Andresen
Olafur Osvaldsson wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Wouldn't it be trivial to just mount the ISO, tar copy it, add the files then rerun mkisofs? This would result in all mirrors re-downloading the image wich is not such a big deal except now there are a minimum of

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Jordan Hubbard
Sounds fine to me! From: Bruce A. Mah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO? Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:48:41 -0700 If memory serves me right, Jordan Hubbard wrote: I seem to recall these programs were owned by WCCDROM (then BSDi, then Naw, I'd long since prunted

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Jordan Hubbard
It will require re-rolling 4.4-install.iso and 4.4-mini.iso. If you want to petition [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see if they'd object to re-mirroring them, that would be a good first step. If they don't disagree, I'm sure Murray would be happy to fix them in his ISO build tree and push them back up to

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jordan Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010921 11:47] wrote: It will require re-rolling 4.4-install.iso and 4.4-mini.iso. If you want to petition [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see if they'd object to re-mirroring them, that would be a good first step. If they don't disagree, I'm sure Murray would be

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Jordan Hubbard wrote: Sounds fine to me! OK. I'll go ahead and do this. In the event that the decision is made to reroll the ISO image(s), we'd have to write up something anyways. Bruce. PGP signature

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:44:56PM +, Olafur Osvaldsson wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Wouldn't it be trivial to just mount the ISO, tar copy it, add the files then rerun mkisofs? This would result in all mirrors re-downloading the image wich is not such a

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Jim Bryant
Jason Andresen wrote: Bruce A. Mah wrote: Note that the set of people affected is going to be people who can't do anonymous FTP, don't have bootable CDROMs, and *only* have the ISO images to work with. I don't know for sure, but I'd expect this set to be pretty small...if they don't have

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Murray Stokely
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:27:31PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Oh, I don't give a cr*p about ISO downloaders, I find them annoying. People downloading ISO can find it, people trying to install from pressed CDroms without net access might find it a bit more difficult. [ Picking a random

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Jordan Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to recall these programs were owned by WCCDROM (then BSDi, then Naw, I'd long since prunted tools/ to just the stuff that was freely redistributable. Murray simply forgot to put it on the ISOs he created. :) Does this mean the ISO's are soon

No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-20 Thread Jason Andresen
Is the tools directory supposed to be missing on the 4.4 CDs? I downloaded the full disk 1 ISO yesterday and burned it only to discover that fdimage.exe was nowhere to be found on the CD. This is not a good thing when you have to create boot floppies because your BIOS refuses to acknowledge

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-20 Thread Annelise Anderson
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Jason Andresen wrote: Is the tools directory supposed to be missing on the 4.4 CDs? I downloaded the full disk 1 ISO yesterday and burned it only to discover that fdimage.exe was nowhere to be found on the CD. This is not a good thing when you have to create boot

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:00:03PM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Jason Andresen wrote: Is the tools directory supposed to be missing on the 4.4 CDs? I downloaded the full disk 1 ISO yesterday and burned it only to discover that fdimage.exe was nowhere to be found