Re: regarding potato images
I looked at El Torito a few years ago in this regard. It allows you to have a choice of which floppy image gets booted so there is no space problem. The first problem I saw at that time was a lack of support for this feature in mkisofs. That might be solved now in mkhybrid, but the bigger problem I see is that using this feature raises the bios compatibility requirement quite a bit. I am highly in favor of other techniques suggested which would initially load grub or similar boot systems. Note that if debian was a tiny thing El Torito would be useful because it allows multiple architectures to share a bootable CD. This might be great if someone wants to put diags and memtest for multiple arches on a CD that gets bundled with a book or magazine. I don't think it is needed for the mother of all distros with it's thousands of packages :) I should probably subscribe myself to debian-boot but I do appreciate people posting things like this to both the boot and cd lists. I would say that it won't bother me a bit if lots of packages get pushed off of CD 1. I would love to be able to include lots of options when binary CD 1 is booted. Besides the choice of kernels for initial install purposes we could have options for rescue/repair and hardware probing/diagnostics. I also was thinking about the timeout that causes a boot from the hard drive if the user fails to interact. This is nice for people who accidentally leave a bootable CD in a machine that they wish to remotely reboot but it is also desirable for certain older machines with stinky bios code. I have seen a few that do not have any setup option for disabling CD boot. With these systems if I left an NT CD in the drive I would get a delay(30 seconds I think) before it booted the hard drive. If I left a debian CD in I would get the install/rescue bootup whether I was at the machine or not. On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jim Westveer wrote: > Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 22:19:52 -0800 (PST) > From: Jim Westveer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: regarding potato images > Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 01:20:19 -0500 > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On 11-Jan-2001 Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Forgive my ignorance, but I just had to de-lurk to ask this probably silly > >> question: > >> Can't you have multiple kernel images on the same cd, chosen via lilo (or > >> whatever boot loader is being used) just like when you have mulitple kernel > >> versions on you computer? > > > > It is based on the El Torito boot standard -- I don't think this is > > doable, partly in part due to boot-floppies itself. But even so, you > > couldn't fit 4 kernels and the root.bin on a 2.8MB disk iamge. > > > > But I defer the debian-cd folks. I don't know all that much about it. > > El-Torito (ref: www.phoenix.com/products/specs-cdrom.pdf or others) > is really just a floppy boot image of either 1.44M or 2.88M. > That is why the boot-disk images are EXACTLY 1.44M or 2.88M in > size, so they can just be copied to the boot1 area, and > used "as-is" to make a CD/ROM boot. > > You may want to look at the debian-cd boot code from the > CVS sources ( in tools/boot/potato/boot-i386 ) and see > if you can hack it to support multiple images on the same CD. > > Ciao, > > > -- > Jim Westveer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Bother," said Pooh as he struggled with sendmail.cf. > "It never does quite what I want." > "I wish Christopher Robin were here.". > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > work : 425-591-3002 Date: 10-Jan-2001 > FAX:425-392-0141 Time: 22:02:16 > pgp-key 0x36129171gpg-key 0x9823336C > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +--+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Platform popularity
Greetings, I am considering selling Official CD's on the internet. At this point, I don't know if I have enough hard drive to offer all the platforms (maybe after I earn a few dollars I can invest in more hard drive space). So beyond, i386 and the source .iso files, what is the popularity of the other platforms? Does anyone have any kind of empirical data that would suggest the m68k is more popular than sparc, etc. Inquiring minds want to know! Thanks, Brooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Platform popularity
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:07:35AM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > I am considering selling Official CD's on the internet. At this point, I >don't know if I have enough hard drive to offer all the platforms (maybe >after I earn a few dollars I can invest in more hard drive space). So >beyond, i386 and the source .iso files, what is the popularity of the other >platforms? Does anyone have any kind of empirical data that would suggest >the m68k is more popular than sparc, etc. Inquiring minds want to know! Grepping my current orders list gives the following numbers of sets: sledge:~$ for arch in alpha arm i386 m68k powerpc sparc src; do echo -n "$arch" ; grep $arch orders.xsp | wc -l; done alpha 3 arm 9 i386140 m68k 12 powerpc 3 sparc 14 src 34 HTH! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rpg-soc.ucam.org/curs/>CURS home page "Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, +-- "Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I..." |Finger for PGP key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Custom Kernel Documentation
Does anyone know of anyplace that I can find documentation on adding a custom kernel to the Debain CD? I need to get an install cd that will boot the DAC960 driver, so I can install onto drives on that controller. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Sam Hamilton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Instantly Increase Web Traffic with Links
Attn: Webmaster Hi, my name is Chelsea Lewis and I am a web-marketing person at 1st-Memory Warehouse ( http://www.1st-memorywhse.com/ ) in Redmond, WA. I recently visited your website, cdimage.debian.org, and was pleased with its quality and the fact that our sites have compatible content. I was hoping that we could exchange url links. Our company's website does get a fair amount of traffic, but we are always looking for more. I have already added your site to our categorized links page , http://www.1st-memorywhse.com/links/themeindex.html , under the Linux category. Please go to the site and make sure that your site's description and other information is suitable. If there are any problems, please email me. As one of our Link Partners, I personally placed your site under its own category, so it is easy to find, and included a bold title, description and url. The number of hits both we and our partners receive increases every day, and I would love for your site to be a part of this directory. Reciprocal links are known to generate more traffic than even search engines can create. Even if you see yourself as one of our competitors, I encourage you to link with our site. Our goal is to make sure our web community is able to find other similar, quality sites like your's. Their options as consumers are expanded because they do not have to depend only on search engines. I would greatly appreciate a reciprocal link on your site. I have some helpful information about adding a link on your website to my website at http://www.1st-memorywhse.com/links/themeindex.html . Thank you for taking the time to trade links. I am always pleased to represent various companies on our website, which have a lot to offer the web community. Thank You! Cordially Yours: Chelsea Athena Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.1st-memorywhse.com/ .. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdimage.debian.org mirror
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Antti wrote: > 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 Thanks for the service! I've added it to our mirror list. > The server currently under DNS as ftp.stealth.net will be > moved under another name and it is not related to this project. Please do inform us when anything has changed, so that we can update our mirror list. > Some keypoints for mirrors might be speed, stability, security > and knowledgeable staff. I believe we might stand a chance -- Actually, the only keypoint here is "being a mirror" -- it's already hard enough to get mirrors for some 16 GB of data ;-) > 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? Don't tell this any further, but the rsync service on cdimage.debian.org does not require a password at this moment. That's only needed to reduce unwanted traffic when an all-new Debian version is released, which I don't expect until the 3rd quarter of this year (and probably even later). You can just point your mirror at cdimage.d.o; the best time to ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a password is when you get an access error meaning that one is needed (he's heavily occupied at all other times ;-) Regards, Anne Bezemer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux
I am looking for the LINUX operating system to download and later burn to a CD. To be perfectly honest, I have no idea what I am doing. I have a CD burner and I am running windows me. I cant tell if your web site has it available for download or not because I am not that smart when it comes to computers. if you could point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it. thank you Chad Finkenbiner
More Debian CD mirrors!
I was going to email about this last week, but I had some problems with the backups, so I forgot. Anyways, we're running a full debian-cd mirror alongside the debian general and incoming mirrors at debian.uchicago.edu in /debian-cd/stable/official. Access is available via ftp, web, and rsync. We currently mirror the official cds off of cdimage.debian.org and build a full set of unofficial cds every night using debian-cd. (This is what the backup system fubared) I'm working on getting debian-cd to build nightly sid and woody images, but I've been having some problems with debian-cd's looking for the boot images in potato since woody and sid don't have any. Regardless, it's a good fast server, and should probably be in the main list. :) Enjoy! -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Website or Keyserver for PGP/GPG Key BA0349D2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP signature
Re: cdimage.debian.org mirror
Thanks, for adding us to one of the official mirrors. I wonder could we have our entry to look something like this: USA, New York (http://www.stealth.net/">Stealth Communications, Inc.) Or just simply: USA, New York (Stealth Communications, Inc.) -- Antti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) // System Maintenance // Stealth Communications, Inc. On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Antti wrote: > > > 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 > > Thanks for the service! I've added it to our mirror list. > > > The server currently under DNS as ftp.stealth.net will be > > moved under another name and it is not related to this project. > > Please do inform us when anything has changed, so that we can update > our mirror list. > > > Some keypoints for mirrors might be speed, stability, security > > and knowledgeable staff. I believe we might stand a chance -- > > Actually, the only keypoint here is "being a mirror" -- it's already hard > enough to get mirrors for some 16 GB of data ;-) > > > Regards, > Anne Bezemer > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux
Please try to use http://www.linuxiso.org >FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0">I am looking for the LINUX operating system to >download and later burn to a >CD. To be perfectly honest, I have no idea what I am doing. I have a CD >burner and I am running windows me. I cant tell if your web site has it >available for download or not because I am not that smart when it comes to >computers. if you could point me in the right direction I would greatly >appreciate it. > > thank you > Chad >Finkenbiner > __ CyberMedian: Ultimate Internet desktop Get 25 MB web desktop, please goto http://www.cybermedian.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: regarding potato images
On 7 Jan 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > 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. According to debian-cd/tools/boot/potato/boot-*: Alpha: only CD 1 is bootable, with something that seems like a multi-boot thing for a few sub-arches Arm: not bootable at all since supported computers don't have CD drives. M68k: only CD 1 bootable, AFAICS only for BVME4000/6000 systems (I don't know if other m68k machines have bootable CD drives at all) Powerpc: only CD 1 bootable, seems like a multi-arch boot for several sub-arches. Sparc: only CD 1 bootable Regards, Anne Bezemer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
