On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:42:32PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: >On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 02:20:08PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> We had a brief discussion back in April about s390/s390x CD images, >> but I'm still not clear on what people would like me to do here. >> >> At the moment, on all other arches we currently create: >> >> * small CDs (businesscard and netinst) >> * full CD and DVD sets >> >> For s390 we've never done the small CDs and just had the full >> sets. For s390x we currently do nothing at all. >> >> Should we just follow the normal conventions and do both types for >> these arches too? Or is that just totally wasting space and time? > >I did not find any documentation about how to access the CD when it's put into >the Hardware Management Console. It's possible to boot a netinst installer >from it, because the HMC is able to load the relevant files (initrd, kernel, >options, etc.) into RAM by itself. The only use for the disc would be to >copy the tree to a local mirror or something. I think in general people would >be better off just doing a network install. But a netinst image would be >really helpful as it's a bit fiddly to boot Debian installer in a partition >otherwise. > >Probably not the answer you wanted, though...
Yes... Anybody else got an opinion? If I don't hear otherwise, I'm tempted to do all the sets - I vaguely recall a conversation ages back with somebody show claimed to use Debian on s390, but they'd never want to connect it to the internet directly so they wanted CDs/DVDs for packages even if they had to copy the contents elsewhere on their LAN. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120517140840.gd9...@einval.com
