Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

2003-10-12 Thread Christian Leber
broken deb on it? I would fix it. > You need rsync to correct that then unless you want to fiddle around > till you find a working file. And if the iso on the rsync server is brocken? I really like rsync and use it for my daily backup, but i don't see a reason to use it together with

Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

2003-10-12 Thread Christian Leber
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 03:10:29PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Or a bittoggler that goes undetected by the TCP checksums. It's very unlikely because the jigdo files have md5 checksum's for every file and i think they are used. Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim r

Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

2003-10-12 Thread Christian Leber
broken deb on it? I would fix it. > You need rsync to correct that then unless you want to fiddle around > till you find a working file. And if the iso on the rsync server is brocken? I really like rsync and use it for my daily backup, but i don't see a reason to use it together with

Re: Bittorrent distribution of cdimages

2003-10-12 Thread Christian Leber
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 03:10:29PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Or a bittoggler that goes undetected by the TCP checksums. It's very unlikely because the jigdo files have md5 checksum's for every file and i think they are used. Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim r

Re: jigdo didn' t work for me. Bye bye Debian

2003-04-18 Thread Christian Leber
uber-geek > hobbyists. For anyone who values their time this distro is a complete > non-starter. Absolutly, perhaps debian is really not the right thing for you when you can't find one of the many ISO mirror's or one of the many (online) stores that offer CD's for little money.

Re: Merging CDs back into distribution tree?

2003-01-16 Thread Christian Leber
ia and do > work, but the last four are totally unreadable. Meanwhile > my Win 98 box reads all 7 CDs just fine. Doesn't matter, the first CD will be easily enough to bring up networking and install the rest from the net. Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non def

Re: Merging CDs back into distribution tree?

2003-01-16 Thread Christian Leber
ia and do > work, but the last four are totally unreadable. Meanwhile > my Win 98 box reads all 7 CDs just fine. Doesn't matter, the first CD will be easily enough to bring up networking and install the rest from the net. Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non def

Re: jigdo-lite: how to utilize the previous ISOs?

2002-07-24 Thread Christian Leber
ount the old images and to give the mountpoints to jigdo, I don't think that the differences are big. Regards, Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (Aurelius Augustinus) Translation:

Re: Woody source ISO

2002-07-02 Thread Christian Leber
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 11:42:19AM +0200, Beno?t SIBAUD wrote: > ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/woody/jigdo/ only > propose i386 jigdo files. Are there source jigdo files somewhere (or > source ISO)? Yes http://cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/ Regards Christ

Re: Bochs can be helpful for bootdisk testing

2002-04-13 Thread Christian Leber
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:05:57PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Absolutely; UML has been able to be used for installation testing for quite > some time now. Even more if initrd would be compiled in. Regards, Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum hab

Re: Announcing jigdo-easy 2.1 - please test

2002-04-12 Thread Christian Leber
mplate But I have to say jigdo-easy is great, so it will be very easy for a lot of people to get iso images. Regards, Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (Aurelius Augustinus) Trans

Re: Silly questions

2002-04-08 Thread Christian Leber
within a transparently decompressed ext2 filesystem with a decompressed size of 1,8 GB) Are there any mirror's which are not located within germany? Regards, Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-07 Thread Christian Leber
possible to test MEMDISK on that machine? sure, but > According to this: > > http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php > > MEMDISK is ... a workaround for BIOSes where ISOLINUX image > support doesn't work. therefore isolinux would have to start first and i

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-07 Thread Christian Leber
ge, but it > > fails on 2 newer systems. > Fails in the meaning of booting the first image without proposing a menu > or completely fails to boot ? Sorry, I was not accurate. It works without proposing a menu, but I will test today on another system and 2 notebooks. Regards Christian Le

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-07 Thread Christian Leber
The same with gentoo, they have even managed to fit a 2.4 kernel on their first and only CD. But I have at least one Computer (i386, from end of 1996) where isolinux fails. MULTIBOOT seems to work everywhere at least with the first image, but it fails on 2 newer systems. Regards Christian Leber

Re: Official woody netinst images

2002-03-07 Thread Christian Leber
something like this. BTW: The woody CD jigdo files are brocken at the moment btw. because boot-floppies 3.0.19 were replaced by 3.0.20. Regards, Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est."

Re: *** Question for download 02/08/02***

2002-02-08 Thread Christian Leber
Why don't you read the FAQ[1] before you mail to a developer list? (That are images conatining an iso9660 filesystem, you have put this again in a file system... so you have this file on the CD, you have to burn it raw on the CDR) Christian Leber [1] http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/ -- &qu