Re: packages required in installation (Re: apt-utils in debootstrap)

2002-01-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:40:14PM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:22:11PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > The following script checks for validity of priority/section (and > > I think this is what should be done, please tell me if something looks wrong) : > > for A i

Re: packages required in installation (Re: apt-utils in debootstrap)

2002-01-02 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:39:30 +0100 Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't understand Junichi's message as this is what is already done > for debian-cd (although we must manually update a task file to make it > true). > > Junichi, what were you trying to do ? Okay, I didn't notice.

Re: CD Images for 2.2r5 (was: Minimal bootable i386 CD image for2.2r5)

2002-01-02 Thread lance
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Martin Schulze wrote: > Richard Atterer wrote: > > wouldn't it be nice if we could provide an official "net install CD > > image" for the upcoming potato release? > > That reminds me of people asking if we can provide 2.2r images at > the same time as it is officially release

Re: packages required in installation (Re: apt-utils in debootstrap)

2002-01-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:42:44PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa écrivait: > By the way, shouldn't the task file creation be automated ? The task files are not meant to be automatically created. We should do that for the file listing the packages required by debootstrap but even automating it is not eno

Re: packages required in installation (Re: apt-utils in debootstrap)

2002-01-02 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > Because I was talking with Manoj, and he seemed to have had > > some missing files on the first CD that he was testing with. > > It's possible. I'll update it. Is that from long ago ? Yes... It was about 20 hours ago. I am not cert

Re: CD Images for 2.2r5 (was: Minimal bootable i386 CD image for 2.2r5)

2002-01-02 Thread Martin Schulze
lance wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Richard Atterer wrote: > > > wouldn't it be nice if we could provide an official "net install CD > > > image" for the upcoming potato release? > > > > That reminds me of people asking if we can provide 2.2r images at > > the same tim

Re: web pages

2002-01-02 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:34:30AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > What you're saying has merit... I'll move the index and artwork, > jigdo-cd, pik and netinst subdirs to ... (That was .. and then a > full-stop. :) :) Good. > > - The "Debian on CD" link on the main page should point to /CD/. > > Wh

Re: web pages

2002-01-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:00:12PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > Why floppy net installs should be mentioned: > > True, they don't quite fit there - but consider them part of the > general description of net installs. Anyway, all that the old > version of the page says is "it is possible,

Re: CD Images for 2.2r5 (was: Minimal bootable i386 CD image for2.2r5)

2002-01-02 Thread lance
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Martin Schulze wrote: > lance wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > > > Richard Atterer wrote: > > > > wouldn't it be nice if we could provide an official "net install CD > > > > image" for the upcoming potato release? > > > > > > That reminds me of peop

Re: web pages

2002-01-02 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:55:36PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: [snip] > > > > What you're saying has merit... I'll move the index and > > > > artwork, jigdo-cd, pik and netinst subdirs to ... (That was .. > > > > and then a full-stop. :) > > > > > > Wait, not netinst, that's also about CD images,

Re: Dead End in your web site

2002-01-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Ed Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So this is great advice, and I am doing it, but where do I go next? I > could not find anything in the "installation manual" that talked about > using the 'disks-whatever' directory as a starting point for an > internet based install. Theres a doc dir i

Re: web pages

2002-01-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:58:15PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > Hm, the FAQ is not only about images, some questions apply equally to > CDs bought from a vendor. Maybe we should move those out into a separate document. This would have the added benefit of being shorter -- people generally disl

Re: web pages

2002-01-02 Thread Richard Atterer
Josip, by all means, leave some stuff in the images/ dir, but... On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:24:46AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Well, it does also make sense to separate the stuff that's for > normal images and for the other things, it's separated logically > already (check the new www.d.o/CD/ p

fsck as part of debian-boot.... ;-/

2002-01-02 Thread Jim Westveer
-- One of the great things about the potato CD images, is that one can put in a potato cd, boot the kernel from the cd, and then run fsck on a broken hard disk. But alas, fsck no longer seems to be a part of the boot-disks ;-( Is it possible to re-instate fsck as part of the base image bef

Re: web pages

2002-01-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:21:47AM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > > Well, it does also make sense to separate the stuff that's for > > normal images and for the other things, it's separated logically > > already (check the new www.d.o/CD/ page -- I've made it even harsher > > in not recommending

Unidentified subject!

2002-01-02 Thread Marcelo Froes
dear mrs, i'd like to know which packages i have to download to have the full Debian on my computer so that i can record my own cds because i can't download it all the time. i heard that's 3 cds. what sould i do? by the way i'm on a windows 98 computer and i'm going to install debian on my comp

Unidentified subject!

2002-01-02 Thread Marcelo Froes
dear mrs, i'd like to know which packages i have to download to have the full Debian on my computer so that i can record my own cds because i can't download it all the time. i heard that's 3 cds. what sould i do? by the way i'm on a windows 98 computer and i'm going to install debian on my comp

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-01-02 Thread Carlos Sousa
Marcelo Froes wrote: > dear mrs, > i'd like to know which packages i have to download to have the full > Debian on my computer so that i can record my own cds because i can't > download it all the time. i heard that's 3 cds. > what sould i do? > by the way i'm on a windows 98 computer and i'm g