Re: Troubles with debian-cd

2013-05-10 Thread Philip Charles
Sorry about the delay. The rest of my life caught up with me. On Thu, 09 May 2013, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 07:54:41PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > >1. When using xorriso 1.2.2 and the associated iso build > >configuration the resulting image would not boot from a fla

Re: Why Debian has only 3 DVD's ISO?

2013-05-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 12:45:50PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >arypsg wrote: >> Why Debian has only 3 DVD's ISO? > >All of the DVDs images are available. It is only that Debian is not >hosting them as iso images on their download site. There are 10 DVD >images for amd64. > >But only a very unusuall

Re: Docs on UEFI support in Debian 7 CDs

2013-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > [real MBR combined with GPT] [MBR partition type 0x00] > > One will have to watch out whether these violations, or the fact > > that MBR partition 2 is nested in MBR partition 1, cause any > > trouble. Andreas Heinlein wrote: > Do you think this might cause trouble, i.e. older ma

Re: Docs on UEFI support in Debian 7 CDs

2013-05-10 Thread Andreas Heinlein
Am 10.05.2013 12:14, schrieb Thomas Schmitt: One will have to watch out whether these violations, or the fact that MBR partition 2 is nested in MBR partition 1, cause any trouble. Hmmm... do you think this might cause trouble, i.e. older machines which used to boot with "plain" (MBR only) isohy

Re: Docs on UEFI support in Debian 7 CDs

2013-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i forgot to mention that gdisks statement MBR: MBR only ... GPT: present is a consequence of the intentional violation of GPT specs by the presence of a valid MBR partition of type 0xef instead of a "protective MBR" partion of type 0xee. Further, the MBR partiton which describes the who

Re: Docs on UEFI support in Debian 7 CDs

2013-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i did with the current snapshot of xorriso-1.2.9 with version timestamp 2013.05.07.185653 : xorriso -indev /dvdbuffer/debian-7.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso -toc to learn ... Volume id: 'Debian 7.0.0 amd64 1' ... Boot record : El Torito , ISOLINUX isohybrid MBR pointing to boot image

Re: Docs on UEFI support in Debian 7 CDs

2013-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > It also seems to have some kind of GPT table, [...] > What tools did you use to get from the file structure on disk to > the hybrid image? Did you use "isohybrid --uefi" from the syslinux > package, or something else? The hybrid aspects are generated by xorriso along with the ISO image. No

Docs on UEFI support in Debian 7 CDs

2013-05-10 Thread Andreas Heinlein
Hello, I am one of the authors of the Ubuntu Privacy Remix Live CD (https://privacy-cd.org), and I am currently looking to get our live CD working with UEFI support like the current amd64 image of Debian 7 live. I'd like to find any docs on how this image was created, especially the isohybri