RE: regarding potato images
You may want to consider doing a multiple boot image scenario for the CDs. That is, boot a menu that allows a choice of boot kernels to use. Modern bioses will allow multiboot CDs to work, but not all bioses work properly. I only have one (out of nine) system at home that will boot a multiboot CD correctly. Using Gary Tong's diskemu.bin boot system it works on all bioses. Check out these sites ... http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/ http://www.geocities.com/iopat/ I'm about to start futzing with them to create a small boot system. 45meg, just with bootable 2.88 disk images and the drives and base system files. The normal single boot image works fine, but I want to be able to pick the boot kernel (ide, udma66 etc). Basically a small business card CD image, but using standard Debian stuff. No special repair utilities or anything. It would be nice to have a script available that would take the standard disks-i386/current tree and create a 45meg ISO image ready to burn. -- Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 94TT :) -Original Message- From: Adam Di Carlo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 3:10 PM To: J.A. Bezemer Cc: Jim Westveer; bbennet; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: regarding potato images "J.A. Bezemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Jim Westveer wrote: > > The debian-cd now in CVS will put boot blocks on > > ALL i386 disks in the following fashion. > > > > CD#1: default kernel from boot-disks(i386) > > CD#2: compact > > CD#3: idepc > > CD#n: default kernel from boot-disks(i386) > > Okay. Boot team: be sure to post a note to -cd as soon as you think of other > interesting flavours ;-) Well, there's the udma66 flavor, which is just a vanilla version, but with a kernel patched for udma66 kernels -- see umda66/README I think. You might wanna use that for CD4 if there is any such thing. I'll add info about what kernels are on what CDs in the installation manual. It would help if someone could inform me of what kernels are on what CDs for other arches, if there are any, on other arches. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cdimage.debian.org mirror
Hello, We are currently in the process of setting up a larger, public FTP-site dedicated to mirroring more popular UNIX-flavours, common utilities/networking-tools and all sorts of drafts and documents relating to the Internet, software-development and many other quite as interesting categories relating to this. It is our understanding you administer the FTP-site known as cdimage.debian.org We would be interested in becoming an official (or, at least approved) mirror-site of your site. Our FTP-server is located in New York and it is hosted at Stealth Communications, Inc aka stealth.net. We are currently mirroring your site daily, and the location of the mirror in our site is: ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/cdimage.debian.org The server is located within Stealth's backbone facilities with two 100 Mbit connections, connecting the server to two separate routers. The routers, in turn, take advantage of our connectivity to ATT, Teleglobe, BBNPlanet, DIGEX, and more. We are also providing ftp access via IPv6. If you wish, you can review more detailed network-statistics at http://traffic.stealth.net/ The server currently under DNS as ftp.stealth.net will be moved under another name and it is not related to this project. Some keypoints for mirrors might be speed, stability, security and knowledgeable staff. I believe we might stand a chance -- Stability and security should pose no problem. We are well equipped against any and all intentional attacks against the site. We also host other high profile servers (www.irc.org, irc.stealth.net) and have had considerable exercise with all the kiddie tricks, as well as some more advanced techniques. The servers are regularly scanned and we actively follow the forums relating to network and host-security. The server will not be running anything unnecessary and all unwanted services are disabled and firewalled. Logs are monitored and backed up via the network. Only staff-members have access to the server. Even SSH is restricted to 2-3 trusted hosts, which in turn have been verified to be secure. We are currently mirroring your site with debcdmirror and doing rsync from rsync.kernel.org. Is it possible to obtain password to master site (cdimage.debian.org) so we could do mirroring from there? At the moment we are also setting up a regular ftp.debian.org mirror. Interested? -- Antti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) // System Maintenance // Stealth Communications, Inc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: regarding potato images
"Carpenter, Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You may want to consider doing a multiple boot image scenario for the CDs. > That is, boot a menu that allows a choice of boot kernels to use. Well, if we wanted this, we should use grub, rather than writing a debian-only version. I hate debian-only code for it's own sake, AKA "NIH". -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: regarding potato images
Will grub work as a CD multi-boot menu system ? I thought it was hard/floppy disk based only. Gary's system works by booting diskemu.bin as a floppy image. That then scans the standard multiboot catalog on the CD for other floppy images, presents a menu and boots the selected one. This wouldn't be Debian only code - it's OS-independent assembler. diskemu.bin is a utility that will boot *any* floppy images we want. I haven't done it yet, but it appears to be just a matter of defining the various floppy images we want in the list. We could add various "tools" floppies as well for that matter. Even DOS based tools :) Check it out - his info page is at http://www.geocities.com/iopat/diskemu.html and he says it will go open source. Sounds like he wouldn't mind it being used in this case. -- Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 94TT :) -Original Message- From: Adam Di Carlo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 5:05 PM To: Carpenter, Dean Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: regarding potato images "Carpenter, Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You may want to consider doing a multiple boot image scenario for the CDs. > That is, boot a menu that allows a choice of boot kernels to use. Well, if we wanted this, we should use grub, rather than writing a debian-only version. I hate debian-only code for it's own sake, AKA "NIH". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
