Boot-floppies 3.0.19 question
Hello. I maintain the unofficial Debian woody netinst CD image. When I built new images against b-f 3.0.19 earlier this week, I was very surprised to see that the installer no longer supports downloading the base .debs from a Debian mirror, and now requires them on some sort of local media. I find this very inconvenient, since it more than doubles the size of my CDs - 29mb without packages, and ~80 with. Are there any plans to reintruduce this feature? I really liked the extra flexibility that was provided wrt installing the base system. P.S. - Please CC on replies, I'm not subscribed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot-floppies 3.0.19 question
On Thursday 14 February 2002 01:46 pm, Colin Walters wrote: > On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 15:34, Ian Eure wrote: > > Hello. I maintain the unofficial Debian woody netinst CD image. When I > > built new images against b-f 3.0.19 earlier this week, I was very > > surprised to see that the installer no longer supports downloading the > > base .debs from a Debian mirror, and now requires them on some sort of > > local media. > > Do you mean downloading individual .debs via HTTP? I did a test install > of 3.0.19 new-powermac on powerpc yesterday over HTTP, and it worked > correctly. What architecture and flavor were you testing? > Yes. I was using the default flavor on i386... It asks for the path on the install CD where it can find a Release file or a basedebs.tar file. It seems to completely skip the screen where you selected the the install media, as I no longer have the option to install via http/ftp/nfs... It just asks me to install from the CD. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot-floppies 3.0.19 question
On Thursday 14 February 2002 08:07 pm, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:34:54PM -0800, Ian Eure wrote: > > Hello. I maintain the unofficial Debian woody netinst CD image. When I > > built new images against b-f 3.0.19 earlier this week, I was very > > surprised to see that the installer no longer supports downloading the > > base .debs from a Debian mirror, and now requires them on some sort of > > local media. > > > > I find this very inconvenient, since it more than doubles the size of my > > CDs - 29mb without packages, and ~80 with. > > > > Are there any plans to reintruduce this feature? I really liked the extra > > flexibility that was provided wrt installing the base system. > > > > P.S. - Please CC on replies, I'm not subscribed. > > You mean, when you select Install Base, it doesn't give you a list > including cdrom, network, already mounted partition, hard disk (not > mounted), etc? > Correct. > Where can I get the netinst image? I know I saw it flash by here once, > but I don't remember. > http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ I've pulled the 3.0.19 images, though I will be putting new ones up Real Soon Now(tm). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot-floppies 3.0.19 question
On Thursday 14 February 2002 08:53 pm, David Kimdon wrote: > reopen 123948 > quit > > > yup, we need to fix this. I wasn't aware of the net-inst CD's. All > we are doing is looking for the file "/.disk/info". Perhaps we need > to peak inside to tell if it is official. > Note that this applies to any CD made with debian-cd, since it makes the .disk/info file, even when it says it's an unofficial image. > BTW, can we make these net-inst CD official perhaps? Sounds really > useful. > That would be great... I don't know if you can use my work, I hacked up the debian-cd boot- scripts pretty bad to get the images smaller, and also to allow boot-image-flavor selection for BIOSes that support ElTorito alternate boot images. For some silly reason, the boot- scripts copy the boot disk images into an 'install' directory, even though it's completely possible to boot from the copies in dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/ - Does anyone know why it does this? It's a pretty big waste of space, imo. You can find my hacked version at http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ ... it currently doesn't work properly with b-f 3.0.19, that will be fixed as soon as I have a new netinst release prepared... Later tonight or over the weekend, I imagine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#123948: netinst information
Hello, I maintain the unofficial Debian woody netinst CD images. There was a question a while back as to the contents of the .disk/info file on my unofficial images. It is ''Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 beta "Woody" - Unofficial i386 Binary-1 (20020212)'' My images do not have binary-* directories, nor base-images-*. It seems, therefore, that this test is flawed. There is nothing on the disc to indicate that it is an official image, yet it is treated as one. This is a larger problem because debian-cd puts the .disk/info file on /every/ image it generates, Official and otherwise. Unless this bug is corrected, anyone who produces unofficial bootable Debian CDs will be bitten. If you would like some CD images to test with, they are available: Broken images http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/releases/20020212/ Fixed images (removed .disk/info file) http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/releases/20020215/ Feel free to contact me if you need any additional information. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
