Re: mkisofs

2001-01-06 Thread Tibor D.
Debian User wrote: > What if you don't know the size, say, you are trying to burn someone's > cd to have a copy for yourself. > Peter Horton wrote: > try dd if=. count=`isosize' isosize is in the xcdroast and the cdwrite package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Potato and Woody CD builds

2001-01-06 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Philip Charles wrote: [...] > I took a good look at the CD trees. > > Potato binary. No change as there is nothing in pool yet. > Potato source. The source that lives in pool ends up in ../main/source/ > on the CDs. The files are listed in Sources.gz on the

Re: Potato and Woody CD builds

2001-01-06 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, jason andrade wrote: > guys, how many CD images are we talking about for woody and sid ? > > i don't bother counting US/NonUS as separate cd images because > i only mirror/create the non us cd1.. it was 3 per arch plus > 3 for source for potato.. > > is it correct from the

Re: regarding potato images

2001-01-06 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Jim Westveer wrote: > On 02-Jan-2001 Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Jim Westveer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On 01-Jan-2001 Adam Di Carlo wrote: > >> > Um, I thought it went like this for i386: > >> > > >> > CD#1: vanilla kernel > >> > CD#2: compact > >> > CD#3: idepci

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-06 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Tibor D. wrote: > Debian User wrote: > > > What if you don't know the size, say, you are trying to burn someone's > > cd to have a copy for yourself. > > Peter Horton wrote: > > > try dd if=. count=`isosize' > isosize is in the xcdroast and the cdwrite package. dd if=/

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-06 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > >> The ISO image read of the CD is probably a sector or two > >> too long. If you know the correct size then you can just do > > I would think that the image created with dd is a few bytes (less than > a sector) too small, because dd reads until it r

Re: rsync problems with 2.2_rev2 binary-m68k-1.iso

2001-01-06 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On 4 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > " " == Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 0100,0100,0100I'm attempting to create an > > Is that supposed to be html mail? > > > .iso file from a pseudo-image that I downloaded from > > ftp.us.debian.org. I keep on getting

Re: rsync problems with 2.2_rev2 binary-m68k-1.iso

2001-01-06 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Ian Smith wrote: > 0100,0100,0100I'm attempting to create an .iso file from a >pseudo-image that I > downloaded from ftp.us.debian.org. I keep on getting bad > checksums. There is a strange bug in rsync that sometimes causes it to fail with a "file changed during transf

Re: Potato and Woody CD builds

2001-01-06 Thread jason andrade
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > Woody 4 for binary, sid 5 (nearly 6). And this is with woody==testing, so I > guess by release time woody will have grown to 6 CDs too. > > Source appears to be just a little bigger than binary, so if we get a 7th > source CD it'll only contain some 100

Re: Potato and Woody CD builds

2001-01-06 Thread paulwade
What if we do something like this: dpkg-scanpackages . > Packages dpkg-scanpackages .. >> Packages in order to get the stuff from different areas of pool and dists into a Packages file? We won't have the standard sort order but at least it allows the Packages file in dists/sid/main to r

Re: rsync problems with 2.2_rev2 binary-m68k-1.iso

2001-01-06 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == J A Bezemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 4 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: >> > " " == Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > 0100,0100,0100I'm attempting to create >> an >> >> Is that supposed to be html mail? >> >> > .iso fi

Re: Still busy...

2001-01-06 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Richard Atterer wrote: > Hi all, > > Just in case you're wondering what has become of me and my plans of a > new CD download tool: I've been programming for the last two weeks, > working on the first step; a tool that is given the CD image and a > list of filenames and finds

Re: Potato and Woody CD builds

2001-01-06 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, jason andrade wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > > Woody 4 for binary, sid 5 (nearly 6). And this is with woody==testing, so I > > guess by release time woody will have grown to 6 CDs too. > > > > Source appears to be just a little bigger than binary, so

Re: Potato and Woody CD builds

2001-01-06 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What if we do something like this: > > dpkg-scanpackages . > Packages > dpkg-scanpackages .. >> Packages > > in order to get the stuff from different areas of pool and dists into a > Packages file? Actually, that was my initial thought too

Re: rsync problems with 2.2_rev2 binary-m68k-1.iso

2001-01-06 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On 6 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > " " == J A Bezemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 4 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > >> > " " == Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > 0100,0100,0100I'm attempting to create > >> an > >> >

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-06 Thread Peter Horton
Well, if you're lucky it'll only be a few sectors too long. Use the length of the image you've got minus 2K. Test and repeat. You might want to look at the image with a hex editor for clues. P. On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:05:33PM -0500, Debian User wrote: > What if you don't know the size, say, y

Re: mkisofs

2001-01-06 Thread Peter Horton
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:11:13AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > >> The ISO image read of the CD is probably a sector or two > >> too long. If you know the correct size then you can just do > > I would think that the image created with dd is a few bytes (less than > a sector) too small, because

Re: rsync problems with 2.2_rev2 binary-m68k-1.iso

2001-01-06 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == J A Bezemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It will? I thought that option will keep the partial download. > Yep, but with the "good" file name, which means your original > file needs to be deleted. >> Why does it not merge the old file with the downloaded changes

Re: rsync problems with 2.2_rev2 binary-m68k-1.iso

2001-01-06 Thread jason andrade
On 7 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Well, I'm thinking of writeing that feature along with client side > unpacking/repacking of data. But it needs some design tweaks I have to > discuss with some friends and the rsync people. i mailed andrew about this some months ago.. hadn't heard anythin

Re: Potato and Woody CD builds

2001-01-06 Thread Per Gustav Ousdal
[---8<---8<---8<---] > > i still carry slink images.. > > If you get _any_ downloads of these, people are most certainly mistaken... Well, maybe :/ However the LRP Linux Router Project (www.linux-router.org) is based on slink. At least they are usefull to ppl. who want to compile packages (pro

Re: Potato and Woody CD builds

2001-01-06 Thread jason andrade
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Per Gustav Ousdal wrote: > [---8<---8<---8<---] > > > > i still carry slink images.. > > > > If you get _any_ downloads of these, people are most certainly mistaken... i don't think so. there are still legacy systems out there. i still have people asking for access to red