-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 17 December 2003 12:17 pm, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > Hi! > > The recovery of the functionality of our servers is taking long, we > still don't have gluck.debian.org/cdimage back, however that doesn't > mean we have stopped making images, in fact, we are now able to > produce DVD images as well. > > While we don't recover gluck.debian.org/cdimage you can find the new > images at http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/ currently there > are only i386 and ia64 images, but as soon as debian-installer images > of alpha, powerpc and others are produced, I'll start building CDs > and DVDs for those as well. > > I have started producing jigdos for DVDs, they are made for the > standard 4.7GB DVDs, so you can have sarge binaries in one and a half > DVD, or you can record it all in a double sided DVD, if anybody finds > other needs, please comment them. > > The new tree for the images is like this: > > testing/ > netinst/ > $ARCH/ > daily/ > ISOs > jigdo-area/ > $ARCH/ > JIGDOs > dvd/ > jigdo-area/ > $ARCH/> > I'd like to comment on the bug we had with the debian-installer > beta-1 cds, which weren't bootable on some machines, for what I saw, > this was not isolinux fault, the businesscard cds were carrying the > same isolinux and had been made using the very same isolinux options > and were not failing, farther more, the netinst images made prior or > after the beta-1 seem to work again. I'd like to get this tested by > some other people than me, by downloading the daily netinst images we > are producing now and testing them in one of the machines that didn't > want to boot out of the beta-1 cds. > > I don't know what happened to the beta-1 cds, looking at the images > everything seems ok, I tried to contact upstream of mkisofs and > isolinux without luck. It seems to me either a bug in the BIOS or in > mkisofs, I'll try to make more tests, but it seems quite difficult > for me to find the exact problem, if anybody with more experience in > bootable cds can > JIGDOs > > This can of course be changed if anybody sugest a more logical one. > > I have made and tested the DVDs at Extremadura (home of Linex) during > the first Debconf-ES, they worked perfectly, the only problem I found > is that the 2.4.22 doesn't mount the DVD-R or DVD-RW disks on some > DVD readers (at least some pioneer slot in) when using auto as the > filesystem type. This has been corrected on 2.4.23, and can be > workarounded by changing the fs type in /etc/fstab from auto to > iso9660, or by avoiding this convination of hardware via using DVD+R > or DVD+RW, for example. sniphelp he is welcome to do so. > > Well, I think that is all for now. > > Regards... > -- > Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net
Cool..Thanks, I have built Testing DVD's and successfully completed an install in Vmware. I will take these images to our LUG meeting and install on more hardware later on. Does this mean that DVD's will be an 'official' part of Debian Sarge ? thanks again. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/6R/Zk7rtxKWZzGsRAgREAJ0RCLTJ7COWpFMUPctKroD49VQmrgCfWMCs PMrXLjqnVjY7kvKUMH4RXC0= =NsL1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
