Re: Help on running debian-cd

2020-04-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Fred, On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:14:54PM +, Fred Yeboah wrote: > >Ca someone explain to me why I continue to get this error - $MIRROR >unset; abort!, while repo path is used to set the MIRROR variable in >CONF.sh? Thanks How exactly are you running things then? build.sh is my normal interf

Re: help!

2016-04-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:40:01 -0700 zero to infinit wrote: > hi > i need install OS Debian 7 64bit - “Small CDs” -> “amd64 > but cant find it, > pls get me that links. From www.debian.org Read more about available versions of Debian. https://www.debian.org/releases/ Debian 7 (wheezy) — obsolete

Re: Help. Debian 8 Image with sysvinit (for servers)

2015-05-08 Thread Pedro
Steve, It worked TAB to boot installation, append this text: preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core" checked with: pstree -p (source [1]) thanks for encouraging Steve Pedro [1] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/121654/convenient-way-to-check-if-system-is-using-

Re: Help. Debian 8 Image with sysvinit (for servers)

2015-05-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 11:32:38AM +0200, Pedro wrote: >Hi, > >Is someone planning to build an image that installs Debian 8 Jessie >with sysvinit? >At the moment I see tricky ways: >https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Installing_without_systemd > >The preseed [1] method is at the moment too advanced fo

Re: Help with debian-cd's UEFI boot on a Debian derivative

2014-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 06:50:36PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >On Wed, 09 Jul 2014, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 12:22:50PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> >So looking further into d-i changes related to this, I found this: >> >http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/debian-

Re: Help with debian-cd's UEFI boot on a Debian derivative

2014-07-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 12:22:50PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >So looking further into d-i changes related to this, I found this: > >http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/debian-installer.git;a=commitdiff;h=81109010691ee0fc9357bd10be8fe116b9bb9f84

Re: Help with debian-cd's UEFI boot on a Debian derivative

2014-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 12:22:50PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >On Wed, 09 Jul 2014, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> We use the Debian grub package unchanged. What changed here is >> that we have rebuilt debian-installer images which picked those >> supplementary modules. > >So looking further into d-i

Re: Help with debian-cd's UEFI boot on a Debian derivative

2014-07-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > We use the Debian grub package unchanged. What changed here is > that we have rebuilt debian-installer images which picked those > supplementary modules. So looking further into d-i changes related to this, I found this: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitwe

Re: Help with debian-cd's UEFI boot on a Debian derivative

2014-07-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >And I build the image with "make official_images". The build seems to work > >fine > >but the resulting image doesn't boot with UEFI. I get a grub screen but > >whenever I select an entry, grub tells me: > >> error: unknown command `linux'. > >> error:

Re: Help with debian-cd's UEFI boot on a Debian derivative

2014-07-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 05:13:44PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >Hello, > >I'm trying to use debian-cd to build an image for a Debian derivative (aka >Kali Linux). I'm using this version of debian-cd: >http://http.kali.org/pool/main/d/debian-cd/debian-cd_3.1.15kali1_all.deb > >It's plain debian-cd

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-06-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Repacking allowed boot. It must be an interesting bug that lets the firmware fail if /boot/boot.img has a higher block address. Well, if --sort-weight 100 /boot/boot.img heals it, then i advise to use this option in debian-cd for ia64. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-06-02 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Thomas" == Thomas Schmitt writes: >> And I'll try repacking as you suggested. Repacking allowed boot. However, the resulting booted kernel doesn't seem to work on older Itaniums. I get output from the kernel and can install on Montecito, but not on McKinley or Merced --- the last messag

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: > > already half on the way to EFI ? Peter Chubb: > It has always used EFI --- EFI was rolled out first to Itanium. Shouldn't the El Torito Validation Entry bear a Platform Id of 0xef then ? (That would be xorriso -as mkisofs option -e rather than -b.) Id 0xef is not mentioned in El Torit

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-24 Thread peter
> "Thomas" == Thomas Schmitt writes: Thomas> Hi, >> I've been trying to install using the XFCE CD on a zx6000. The >> boot rom doesn't recognise the CD as being bootable. The netinst >> CD does work. Thomas> Google zx6000 ... Itanium CPU ... would that be ia64 ? Yes. It's totally EFI. T

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-24 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, [moved to specific list for debian-ia64@, instead of all debian-ports@] On 24/05/13 05:47, Peter Chubb wrote: > I've been trying to install using the XFCE CD on a zx6000. The boot > rom doesn't recognise the CD as being bootable.The netinst CD does > work. Exactly which ISO image did yo

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i see that had a surplus "i" in the arguments of the xorriso run for repacking the image: > -b /boot/boot.img -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size i0 \ This should have been -b /boot/boot.img -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 0 \ The program run with "i0" succeeds but creates El Torito as with -boo

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I've been trying to install using the XFCE CD on a zx6000. The boot > rom doesn't recognise the CD as being bootable.The netinst CD does > work. Google zx6000 ... Itanium CPU ... would that be ia64 ? http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/ia64/iso-cd/debian-7.0.0-ia64-netinst.iso

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-23 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Émeric" == Émeric Maschino writes: Émeric> Just to let you know that I've successfully installed Wheezy Émeric> using the netinst CD on a spare HDD, using default parameters Émeric> (using entire HDD and one single partition as partition Émeric> scheme) except for localization of course.

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-22 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Sorry for the late reply, I didn't have access to my zx6000 workstation until now. Just to let you know that I've successfully installed Wheezy using the netinst CD on a spare HDD, using default parameters (using entire HDD and one single partition as partition scheme) except for localization

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 05:04:46PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >On 05/05/13 17:02, Julien Cristau wrote: >> Oh, I thought this was about tasksel, not the boot menu. Nevermind me. > >Actually that is what I thought; that tasksel was supposed to let me >choose. Maybe that feature was removed

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-05 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 05/05/13 17:02, Julien Cristau wrote: > Oh, I thought this was about tasksel, not the boot menu. Nevermind me. Actually that is what I thought; that tasksel was supposed to let me choose. Maybe that feature was removed a very long time ago though in favour of the boot menu options. So the p

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-05 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 16:58:41 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 05:49:54PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > >On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 14:26:04 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> >From debian-cd testing we have some things to perhaps add to the > >> >erra

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 05:49:54PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: >On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 14:26:04 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >From debian-cd testing we have some things to perhaps add to the errata[0]: >> >> > * DVD-1 doesn't offer a choice of desktop environment; it will ins

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-05 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 14:26:04 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Hi, > > >From debian-cd testing we have some things to perhaps add to the errata[0]: > > > * DVD-1 doesn't offer a choice of desktop environment; it will install the > > default (GNOME; or on kfreebsd, XFCE). I don't think tha

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-05 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, >From debian-cd testing we have some things to perhaps add to the errata[0]: > * DVD-1 doesn't offer a choice of desktop environment; it will install the > default (GNOME; or on kfreebsd, XFCE). > * Installing linux on btrfs seems extraordinarily slow. > * Installing kfreebsd on ufs may be s

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-02 Thread Frank Fegert
Hello Steve, On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 02:29:10AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > * non-PC architectures > * more obscure combinations of options like partitioning, filesystems >etc. > * different desktops with differing package sets > > I've started a wiki page at > > https://wiki.debian

Re: [help for academic project] tracker log

2011-12-12 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Novák Áron wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask the help of the debian community to my academic project. As my MSc thesis, I designed a novel overlay routing protocol what is supposed to be churn-proof. I'd like to have some real world data about the peer behaviour in the real p2p

Re: Help

2008-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 03:34:40PM -0300, Esteban López wrote: > Hello, I continue having problems to consent to this link: > > http://gemmei.acc.umu.se/debian-cd/4.0_r3/i386/iso-dvd/debian-update-4.0r3-i386-DVD-1.iso > > I need to lower this file and I am not able to, I already proved in several

Re: HELP!

2004-01-21 Thread Jan Kesten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Fancsali, FD> 3.0r2 images. So my question is: What to do: Download these, and FD> they will work well with r1 (onli cd4 and 7), or download, (AND FD> BURN) the whole thing again. (Or maybe i can find the old images FD> somewhere?) I don't know

Re: HELP!

2004-01-21 Thread Jan Kesten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Fancsali, FD> 3.0r2 images. So my question is: What to do: Download these, and FD> they will work well with r1 (onli cd4 and 7), or download, (AND FD> BURN) the whole thing again. (Or maybe i can find the old images FD> somewhere?) I don't know

Re: help location?

2003-12-31 Thread Richard Atterer
Hi Sandra, On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:02:17AM -0800, NymSandra wrote: > I need a little assistance in a number of areas... sound card problems, > getting back to root-user/command line, etc. What is the suggested > message/news-site for such information? For Debian, debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: help location?

2003-12-31 Thread Richard Atterer
Hi Sandra, On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:02:17AM -0800, NymSandra wrote: > I need a little assistance in a number of areas... sound card problems, > getting back to root-user/command line, etc. What is the suggested > message/news-site for such information? For Debian, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Generally,

Re: Help me

2003-12-18 Thread Jan Houstek
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Bruno Augusto wrote: > I have the image of debian in my computer. It has a iso extension and I > do no how can I procede to do a particion in my computer and extract > this file, and so run the linux. If it has .iso extention, it's probably a CD image. If it's a debian instal

Re: Help me

2003-12-18 Thread Jan Houstek
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Bruno Augusto wrote: > I have the image of debian in my computer. It has a iso extension and I > do no how can I procede to do a particion in my computer and extract > this file, and so run the linux. If it has .iso extention, it's probably a CD image. If it's a debian instal

Re: help with rsync + win 9x

2003-01-25 Thread Gordon Huff
At 03:20 PM 1/25/2003 -0800, Geek wrote: i installed rsync for win 9x (minimalist approach) http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help/rsync/rsync_pc1.html Wow. I found that very difficult. I use the rsync from "Cygwin" (It's in the Pseudo-image-kit.) command i used was : rsync246 -e ssh -avP rsync://f

Re: help with rsync + win 9x

2003-01-25 Thread Gordon Huff
At 03:20 PM 1/25/2003 -0800, Geek wrote: i installed rsync for win 9x (minimalist approach) http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help/rsync/rsync_pc1.html Wow. I found that very difficult. I use the rsync from "Cygwin" (It's in the Pseudo-image-kit.) command i used was : rsync246 -e ssh -avP rsy

Re: Help

2002-05-22 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:59:39PM -0600, Doug Dearden wrote: > I am having a problem wrapping up the download of the CD image (i386 > architecture, with non-US, #1 on the list). I have run the runme.bat > file, and seem to have successfully downloaded all but 3 files. When I > rerun the runme.b

Re: Help

2002-05-22 Thread Ruben Cuesta
Doug Dearden escribió: I am having a problem wrapping up the download of the CD image (i386 architecture, with non-US, #1 on the list).  I have run the runme.bat file, and seem to have successfully downloaded all but 3 files.  When I rerun the runme.bat, I see a message "found 0 of 3 files".  It

Re: Help with Debian GNU/Linux Installation

2001-07-19 Thread jason andrade
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Narasimhamurthy Giridhar wrote: > Hi > I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux on my PC. I have a few ?s. > 1. Can I burn the kernel images, loadlin.exe, the driver files(.bin) and > the base system files(.tgz) directly and use it for installation. OR shuld > I burn it in so

Re: help

2001-07-17 Thread MPfeifer
dear darren, > hey i was hoping you could help or at least point me > in the right direction. i have an image of a cd in > .bin format. from what i have found, this needs to be > converted to .iso format . but what do i do with this > iso file? its not executable. hey thanks in advance ehm... ma

Re: help!!! (Installing downloaded packages)

2001-06-13 Thread Robert Guthrie
The quick answer: Don't use apt for those packages. Use "dpkg -i *.deb" in the directory with those packages. The long answer: apt-get is for use with archives of debian packages, where you want to install a package, and want all of the other packages that it depends on to be installed automa

Re: Help for woody iso image

2001-06-03 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > Can somebody please explain me how can I create the file > binary-i386-1.list which is needed to create the debain woody image by > make-pseudo-image . You can find them for example at: ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/woody But be very careful, these images are only

RE: Help for woody iso image

2001-06-02 Thread MPfeifer
> Can somebody please explain me how can I create the file > binary-i386-1.list which is needed to > create the debain woody image by make-pseudo-image . make them? don't know how. yes, there is an easy way to do that. but why don't you take them from, for example: ftp.kernel.org/debian-cd ? m

Re: help! (pop)

2001-02-24 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Patrick Mauro wrote: [...] > I've gotten this on two different rsync server. But when I do the md5sum > check, it's the same as what it should be. If the md5sum matches, the image is okay. Go forth and burn it ;-) (See note #6 at http://cdimage.debian.org/~costar/pseudo-

Re: help for a bootable cd for powermacs/g4

2001-02-06 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > On a related subject, is it possible to get a new-world mac bootable Debian > install CD at all? The official powerpc Binary-1 CD should be bootable on those machines. (If you're interested, see http://cvs.debian.org/debian-cd/tools/boot/potato/

Re: help for a bootable cd for powermacs/g4

2001-02-06 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On a related subject, is it possible to get a new-world mac bootable Debian install CD at all? How do most of you guys install Debian onto your machines? On 6/2/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.A. Bezemer) wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Francesco Lanni wrote: > > > Hi, > > can anyone explain me what

Re: help for a bootable cd for powermacs/g4

2001-02-06 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Francesco Lanni wrote: > Hi, > can anyone explain me what should I do to create a bootable CD for my > G4? > Is there any document available? man mkisofs (1.13 from woody): HFS BOOT DRIVER It may be possible to make the hybrid CD bootable on a Macintosh.

Re: Help: Sh.exe errors.

2000-10-20 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Keith Mastin wrote: > This is in regard to the following communications, found with a web search > on google.com for 'SH caused an invalis page fault in module > KERNEL32.dll'... > a.. To: "Miller,Dwayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &g

Re: Help: Sh.exe errors.

2000-10-18 Thread Keith Mastin
This is in regard to the following communications, found with a web search on google.com for 'SH caused an invalis page fault in module KERNEL32.dll'... To: "Miller,Dwayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Help: Sh.exe errors. From: "J.A. Bezemer"

Re: Help requiered

2000-09-01 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Csaba wrote: > I couldn't download the http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors. > page, please send me the vendors list by E-mail. That site seems to be down at the moment. But our many mirror sites are accessible; closest to you would be http://www.hu.debian.org/distrib/ven

Re: Help to create a program to calculqte n!

2000-08-13 Thread Seth Cohn
Alicja Pawlowska writes: > Dear Sir, > > Please help me to write the following program: > > Q: Write a program to count (correct to 1 decimals) the n! of natural > number series between 0 and 1000 with user input menu. > > Thanks and regards Alicja, I'd recommend the following: 1) From your