Re: Patch for small cd images and producing them officially?
* Richard Atterer | On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:34:14AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > All people who install debian (unless they use ar and tar by hand) | > need debootstrap. Debootstrap installs base (and some extras, if you | > want that). This means that for all normal users, they'll need the | > «normal netinst image». Only people who put stuff on bbc will want | > the smallest variant. | | This sounds like the netinst CD only contains additional packages | which the business-card CD is able to download from the net. But if | they can just be downloaded, why put them on the CD? It'll be faster to install off a CD than a net connection, and some people use the CD multiple times, so it's bandwidth saved. As I wrote: _everybody_ needs base. But one should be able to do with just a d-i cd and install off that. | Or will the business-card CD be significantly more difficult to use | because debootstrap doesn't fit on it, or something? Debootstrap is tiny, that's not the problem. Debootstrap's base packages won't fit. | BTW, with boot-floppies there is the problem that certain packages | have to be present on the CD for you to be able to install using PCI | ISDN cards. Is this still the case with the new installer? Nobody has yet done any work wrt PPP installs at all. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alpha binary-2 jigdo error!
[not subscribed to list - reply to my email & list] I just tried to download the ISO image for the Alpha binary-2 CD from http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/current/jigdo/alpha/ but I can't. jigdo downloads the woody-alpha-2.template file, but then it stalls for quite some time and finally errors with "File `' does not exist!". I had no problem downloading the binary-1 ISO, so I am guessing that there may be a problem with the template file. Here's my setup: Platform: x86 OS: Win2k SP2 Other: Sygate Personal Firewall Pro 5 - this was running when I downloaded the first ISO. Let me know, Grant M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S.> Is there a listing somewhere of what ISOs/CDs have what packages? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Patch for small cd images and producing them officially?
* Richard Atterer | On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:34:14AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > All people who install debian (unless they use ar and tar by hand) | > need debootstrap. Debootstrap installs base (and some extras, if you | > want that). This means that for all normal users, they'll need the | > «normal netinst image». Only people who put stuff on bbc will want | > the smallest variant. | | This sounds like the netinst CD only contains additional packages | which the business-card CD is able to download from the net. But if | they can just be downloaded, why put them on the CD? It'll be faster to install off a CD than a net connection, and some people use the CD multiple times, so it's bandwidth saved. As I wrote: _everybody_ needs base. But one should be able to do with just a d-i cd and install off that. | Or will the business-card CD be significantly more difficult to use | because debootstrap doesn't fit on it, or something? Debootstrap is tiny, that's not the problem. Debootstrap's base packages won't fit. | BTW, with boot-floppies there is the problem that certain packages | have to be present on the CD for you to be able to install using PCI | ISDN cards. Is this still the case with the new installer? Nobody has yet done any work wrt PPP installs at all. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-
Alpha binary-2 jigdo error!
[not subscribed to list - reply to my email & list] I just tried to download the ISO image for the Alpha binary-2 CD from http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/current/jigdo/alpha/ but I can't. jigdo downloads the woody-alpha-2.template file, but then it stalls for quite some time and finally errors with "File `' does not exist!". I had no problem downloading the binary-1 ISO, so I am guessing that there may be a problem with the template file. Here's my setup: Platform: x86 OS: Win2k SP2 Other: Sygate Personal Firewall Pro 5 - this was running when I downloaded the first ISO. Let me know, Grant M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S.> Is there a listing somewhere of what ISOs/CDs have what packages?
