Re: kFreeBSD CD/DVD builds for Jessie
On 04/19/2015 08:04 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, I know that the kFreeBSD ports are not being officially released [1]. What plans (if any) have been made for any *un*official releases? I've just removed the BSD builds from the debian-cd architecture lists in preparation for next weekend, but I've not heard anything more... [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg5.html Can the mini.iso be made to work with "unetbootin" or any of the iso's for that matter ? I've been trying off and on for month's to get KFeeBSD installed with no luck. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian - Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55369938.5000...@gmail.com
Re: Stretch release testing - up to and including Saturday 17th June
On 06/14/2017 06:42 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hey folks, Stretch is coming! \o/ We're going to be working on the Stretch release images on Saturday, starting as soon as the ftpmasters and release team have done their work. Andy and I are going to do as much testing as we can on various machines we have, but we're limited both in terms of manpower and available machines. If you have time and can help us with testing, please join in. Particularly of interest are installations on non-x86 machines. On the day, we'll be doing a full build of installation, live and cloud images. Help with testing these as they come availables would be lovely. We'll be co-ordinating in irc (irc.debian.org, #debian-cd) and we'll have pages set up in the wiki to help track what testing has been done. If you can help before the weekend, please don't just wait until then. Finding bugs earlier is always good! We've got d-i RC5 installation images that were produced last weekend [1], and the most recent live and OpenStack images from a couple of days ago [2,3]. These images will be nearly identical to what we're going to have this coming weekend for the final Stretch release, so test reports on all of these will be very helpful. Thanks in advance for your help, and let's make Stretch excellent! [1] https://get.debian.org/images/stretch_di_rc5/ [2] https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-live-builds/ [3] https://get.debian.org/images/openstack/testing/ I'm downloading the 06/12/17 amd64 weekly live KDE build iso now and will run it on a few computers, laptops, desktops and one Intel T20 server. If it's okay, I will install it on a Lenovo Intel desktop. I'll probably give the RC5 net installer a try too. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263
Re: Stretch release testing - up to and including Saturday 17th June
On 06/14/2017 11:18 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 06/14/2017 06:42 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hey folks, Stretch is coming! \o/ We're going to be working on the Stretch release images on Saturday, starting as soon as the ftpmasters and release team have done their work. Andy and I are going to do as much testing as we can on various machines we have, but we're limited both in terms of manpower and available machines. If you have time and can help us with testing, please join in. Particularly of interest are installations on non-x86 machines. On the day, we'll be doing a full build of installation, live and cloud images. Help with testing these as they come availables would be lovely. We'll be co-ordinating in irc (irc.debian.org, #debian-cd) and we'll have pages set up in the wiki to help track what testing has been done. If you can help before the weekend, please don't just wait until then. Finding bugs earlier is always good! We've got d-i RC5 installation images that were produced last weekend [1], and the most recent live and OpenStack images from a couple of days ago [2,3]. These images will be nearly identical to what we're going to have this coming weekend for the final Stretch release, so test reports on all of these will be very helpful. Thanks in advance for your help, and let's make Stretch excellent! [1] https://get.debian.org/images/stretch_di_rc5/ [2] https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-live-builds/ [3] https://get.debian.org/images/openstack/testing/ I'm downloading the 06/12/17 amd64 weekly live KDE build iso now and will run it on a few computers, laptops, desktops and one Intel T20 server. If it's okay, I will install it on a Lenovo Intel desktop. I'll probably give the RC5 net installer a try too. Cheers, Dell PowerEdge T20 (Haswell) booted the live dvd but would not start plasma. ThinkPad T400 (GM45 Express) booted the live dvd but would not start plasma. ThinkPad T430 (Ivybridge) booted the live dvd and started plasma, no problems. Lenovo ThinkCentre (G33) booted the live dvd and started plasma, no problems. Lenovo 3000 Laptop (i965) Would not boot the DVD, I was surprised that it would not boot the live dvd, it booted RC3 net-install okay. It booted RC5 net-install but it did not install wireless it would just loop asking for essid and passphrase over and over, I do not have that problem with Stretch RC3. Also the 4.9 kernel will not support i965, I have to use a different kernel, as Debian does not have a different kernel I've been using the Ubuntu 16.04 kernel. Questions? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263
Re: Stretch release testing - up to and including Saturday 17th June
On 06/14/2017 08:10 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 06/14/2017 11:18 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 06/14/2017 06:42 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hey folks, Stretch is coming! \o/ We're going to be working on the Stretch release images on Saturday, starting as soon as the ftpmasters and release team have done their work. Andy and I are going to do as much testing as we can on various machines we have, but we're limited both in terms of manpower and available machines. If you have time and can help us with testing, please join in. Particularly of interest are installations on non-x86 machines. On the day, we'll be doing a full build of installation, live and cloud images. Help with testing these as they come availables would be lovely. We'll be co-ordinating in irc (irc.debian.org, #debian-cd) and we'll have pages set up in the wiki to help track what testing has been done. If you can help before the weekend, please don't just wait until then. Finding bugs earlier is always good! We've got d-i RC5 installation images that were produced last weekend [1], and the most recent live and OpenStack images from a couple of days ago [2,3]. These images will be nearly identical to what we're going to have this coming weekend for the final Stretch release, so test reports on all of these will be very helpful. Thanks in advance for your help, and let's make Stretch excellent! [1] https://get.debian.org/images/stretch_di_rc5/ [2] https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-live-builds/ [3] https://get.debian.org/images/openstack/testing/ I'm downloading the 06/12/17 amd64 weekly live KDE build iso now and will run it on a few computers, laptops, desktops and one Intel T20 server. If it's okay, I will install it on a Lenovo Intel desktop. I'll probably give the RC5 net installer a try too. Cheers, Dell PowerEdge T20 (Haswell) booted the live dvd but would not start plasma. ThinkPad T400 (GM45 Express) booted the live dvd but would not start plasma. ThinkPad T430 (Ivybridge) booted the live dvd and started plasma, no problems. Lenovo ThinkCentre (G33) booted the live dvd and started plasma, no problems. I tried a live dvd install on the ThinkCentre and it could not find the dvd, it acted like if was using a flash drive, yet it runs live to the desktop. So I ran an RC5 cd net install task KDE with no problems, the locals where good, nice install. Lenovo 3000 Laptop (i965) Would not boot the DVD, I was surprised that it would not boot the live dvd, it booted RC3 net-install okay. It booted RC5 net-install but it did not install wireless it would just loop asking for essid and passphrase over and over, I do not have that problem with Stretch RC3. Also the 4.9 kernel will not support i965, I have to use a different kernel, as Debian does not have a different kernel I've been using the Ubuntu 16.04 kernel. Questions? Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263
Re: Stretch release testing - up to and including Saturday 17th June
On 06/16/2017 03:28 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 08:10:23PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 06/14/2017 11:18 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Some days installations don't work for me, I thought burning disc would solve that problem!!! Dell PowerEdge T20 (Haswell) booted the live dvd but would not start plasma. Hmmm, OK. What errors please? Using the same DVD, today I had no problem running the live dvd. Tried both installs and they failed on finding the dvd. ThinkPad T400 (GM45 Express) booted the live dvd but would not start plasma. Again, errors please? Again, using the same DVD, today I had no problem running the live dvd. Tried both installs and they failed on finding the dvd. ThinkPad T430 (Ivybridge) booted the live dvd and started plasma, no problems. Cool. Lenovo ThinkCentre (G33) booted the live dvd and started plasma, no problems. Cool. Lenovo 3000 Laptop (i965) Would not boot the DVD, I was surprised that it would not boot the live dvd, it booted RC3 net-install okay. Wouldn't boot the live DVD? What errors, if any? DVD activity, but, no boot. It booted RC5 net-install but it did not install wireless it would just loop asking for essid and passphrase over and over, I do not have that problem with Stretch RC3. Also the 4.9 kernel will not support i965, I have to use a different kernel, as Debian does not have a different kernel I've been using the Ubuntu 16.04 kernel. How are you doing that? The keys already in the Debian repos, if not add it and add the 16.04-xenial main repo and update, remove the Debian linux image, headers and firmware. Install linux-image-generic and linux-headers-generic. Update grub, reboot. Thanks for helping to test here - more information is needed if the results are going to be useful! My thanks to you all for making Debian the Best. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid/Testing - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - Kernel 4.9.0-3 - EXT4 at sda24 Registered Linux User #380263
Re: Stretch release testing - up to and including Saturday 17th June
On 06/17/2017 01:31 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Tried both installs and they failed on finding the dvd. Did your BIOS or EFI not notice the presence of a bootable DVD and instead just does what is usual when no DVD is inserted at boot time ? I'm sorry, I should have been clearer, the dvd boots and runs live to desktop, it's when I click to install and it gets to finding the dvd is when it loop unable to find the dvd. If you do not get boot messages from ISOLINUX or GRUB to finally get to the Debian menu which offers installation, then we have a problem with boot entry points. The only computer that could not boot the live dvd is an older laptop Lenovo 3000(i965) with no EFI. It's the same comp. that has problems with linux 4.9.0-3, for me it's a retired laptop and has been replaced with a newer ThinkPad that booted and ran the live dvd to desktop. I'd need to know the exact URL of the problematic ISO in this case, in order to examine its initial boot entries. https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-testing-amd64-kde.iso I also tested the RC5 Net-Install, I had no problems with it. https://get.debian.org/images/stretch_di_rc5/amd64/iso-cd/debian-stretch-DI-rc5-amd64-netinst.iso It would then help if you can tell whether the boot firmware of the machines is EFI or BIOS. Except for the one laptop mentioned above, all my comps. are EFI, set to boot Legacy and they booted the live dvd okay, but looped on the install while finding the dvd. No problems with the RC5 net-install. Have a nice day :) Thomas Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263
Dead links for CDs/DVDs
Just a heads up guys, The links for downloads have a typo which causes a 404. For example, http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.4.0/i386/bt-cd/ does not work. It has the wrong version number :( These links should reflect version 7.3.0. Cheers, Jimmy
Re: Debion live.
John Sandeman wrote: Hi. Steve. I want to know if this DVD is ok to use on a 64bit pc with either an amd or intel processor? I am trying to learn Linux I do not have any programming knowledge and am 80 years old, do you think it is possible to use your live disc for me to do this. Would appreciate your Help. Regards Jack. Are you a new computer user or just new to linux? There is a Debian Linux OS for new computer users called "HandyLinux" and it's Debian Wheezy/stable http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20140811#feature If you are already an experienced computer user then please try all the different versions of Debian-Live and see what you like, I like easy linux or what's called "point & click" linux and use the KDE plasma-desktop with all the bells & whistles and everything works too, Debian-Live KDE does just that, I’ve tried all the different versions, some are smaller and faster, you should try them too. -- Jimmy Johnson Tanglu GNU/Linux - AMD 64 - KDE 4.11.5 - EXT4 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53f3c1be.9080...@gmail.com
