Re: woody ISOs for non-i386?

2001-07-25 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! > Any chance of someone generating ISO images for non-i386 architectures for > woody on a semi-regular basis? (bi-weekly maybe?) [0] I may be able to do this, even though the images should be on two diferent machines at the university of La Corun~a, I have to ask for permision, but first I'm

Re: woody ISOs for non-i386?

2001-07-25 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 07:57:05AM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Richard Atterer wrote: > > FWIW, it /might/ be possible that jigdo reaches a usable state by > > the time woody is released at Christmas[0]. IMHO, this would solve > > our CD mirror problems. > > as a mirror-adm

Re: woody ISOs for non-i386?

2001-07-25 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:25:04AM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > Right now I'm having trouble with the scripts for making m68k cds bootable > and I'm trying to solv that. m68k CDs bootable? For what? AFAIK m68k machines need to bootstrap from the native OS. Maybe VME could use it, di

Re: woody ISOs for non-i386?

2001-07-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 08:28:33AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: >On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:25:04AM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: >> >> Right now I'm having trouble with the scripts for making m68k cds bootable >> and I'm trying to solv that. >m68k CDs bootable? For what? AFAIK m6

Re: woody ISOs for non-i386?

2001-07-25 Thread jason andrade
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Richard Atterer wrote: > - making special CD image mirrors completely unnecessary - /any/ > Debian mirror can be used to download the images interesting. > - getting rid of rsync. rsync is a cool program and works well for > syncing images between mirrors, but it's no

Re: woody ISOs for non-i386?

2001-07-25 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> m68k CDs bootable? For what? AFAIK m68k machines need to bootstrap from the > native OS. Maybe VME could use it, did you check with out vme hackers if > that is really neded? We never had bootable m68k CDs, did we? Well, don't know if they are bootable or not, but debian-cd has the boot-m68k sc

Re: woody ISOs for non-i386?

2001-07-25 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 04:30:32PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > m68k CDs bootable? For what? AFAIK m68k machines need to bootstrap from the > > native OS. Maybe VME could use it, did you check with out vme hackers if > > that is really neded? We never had bootable m68k CDs, did we? >

Re: woody ISOs for non-i386?

2001-07-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:15:44AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: >On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 04:30:32PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: >> >> Well, don't know if they are bootable or not, but debian-cd has the >> boot-m68k scripts and they are run, it was a little error caused by the wa

Re: woody ISOs for non-i386?

2001-07-25 Thread Nick Holgate
> Some VMEs might boot from CD, no idea if that was > ever tested. The BVME6000 will boot from CD, that's why we build the 2.88 combined rescue and root image for the BVME6000 it's the CD El Torito bootfile. The last time I checked if it was working was with the 2.2r2 CD image. Unfortunately thi