Re: Multiboot testing please ...

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 06, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Chris Lawrence is willing to do tests with isolinux, please continue as > we may want to try that if we have troubles with the actual > multiboot stuff. Feel free to prepare a patch too. :) It may also > have more interesting features (no size limit on the boot

Mirrors list

2002-04-07 Thread Alex Grigoriev
Hello. I've noticed that not all debian mirrors support jigdo downloads. Where can I get the full list of the mirrors which provide such services? Best wishes, ratter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: 2.2_r6 jigdo files cdimage.d.o

2002-04-07 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:37:27PM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > Hmm.. This might be a very good idea if someone would write the > jigdo-mirror script (or point me towards it if it is already done). It doesn't exist yet, but I'm willing to write it (later this week). Basically, what I'm thi

Re: Mirrors list

2002-04-07 Thread Richard Atterer
Hello Alex, On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:57:44PM +, Alex Grigoriev wrote: > Hello. I've noticed that not all debian mirrors support jigdo > downloads. That's not correct; *all* regular Debian mirrors can be used by jigdo. The list of mirrors that comes with jigdo just doesn't include all mirro

Re: 2.2r5 download with jigdo failed

2002-04-07 Thread Richard Atterer
¡Hola Javier! On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:50:15AM +, idd02z46 wrote: > Hi, I jave donwloaded and installed today jigdo 0.6.3 for windows > and jigdp-lite2win. I am using Win98. > > I have tried to download potato but I keep getting the (in) famous > "Aaargh - not all files could be downloaded

Re: Multiboot testing please ...

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 07, Chris Lawrence wrote: > Anyway, I burned a CD and tested it, and it seems to work OK. I'll > post a URL for downloading it for testing as soon as it gets done > rsyncing. > > Note that this will be a 185MB 5cm/3in CD image. It contains all of > the base system and standard, so you ca

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

2002-04-07 Thread Christian Leber
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:24:53AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote: > The slackware installer already uses isolinux, which lets > then pack multiple kernels onto a single CD Here is > what they do: > > http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/isolinux/ The same with gento

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

2002-04-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:53:56AM +0200, Christian Leber écrivait: > 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. What kind of failure ? It doesn't boot at all ?

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

2002-04-07 Thread Christian Leber
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:07:39PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > 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. > What kind of failure ? It doesn't boot at

Re: Multiboot testing please ...

2002-04-07 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Apr 07, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > Anyway, I burned a CD and tested it, and it seems to work OK. I'll > > post a URL for downloading it for testing as soon as it gets done > > rsyncing. > > > > Note that this will be a 185MB 5cm/3in CD image. It con

Re: Release notes

2002-04-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:58:18PM +0100, Rob Bradford écrivait: > With the release nearly upon us this is an *URGENT* request for > information regarding the woody release notes. The following issues need > addressing. > > Draft release notes are available at > http://www.debian.org/releases/woo

Re: 2.2r5 download with jigdo failed

2002-04-07 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:25:11AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > *However*, it is possible that the old 2.2r5 CD images have already > been deleted from the CD mirrors, so there might be nothing for you to > rsync against. In that case I'm afraid you will have to retry with the > 2.2r6 jigdo fil

Re: 2.2_r6 jigdo files cdimage.d.o

2002-04-07 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:37:27PM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > > Hmm.. This might be a very good idea if someone would write the > > jigdo-mirror script (or point me towards it if it is already done). > > It doesn't exist yet, but I'm willing to

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

2002-04-07 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 10:53, Christian Leber wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:24:53AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote: > > > The slackware installer already uses isolinux, which lets > > then pack multiple kernels onto a single CD Here is > > what they do: > > > > http://distro.ibiblio.or

Re: Release notes

2002-04-07 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 11:51, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > You also speak of a DVD distribution, while it may be possible, I've > never heard of someone doing it officially ... better leave it out until > we actually provide some DVD images ? John Winters of linuxemporium.co.uk was asking me about thi

Re: Release notes

2002-04-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:13:38PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 11:51, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> You also speak of a DVD distribution, while it may be possible, I've >> never heard of someone doing it officially ... better leave it out until >> we actually provide some DVD ima

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

2002-04-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Erik Andersen wrote on Sun Apr 07, 2002 um 12:24:53AM: > The slackware installer already uses isolinux, which lets > then pack multiple kernels onto a single CD Here is > what they do: > > http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/isolinux/ I looked at how i

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

2002-04-07 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Christian Leber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > P.S. I'm not a developer or know much about kernels, but i can not > imagine that 2.4 is less stable then 2.2. > But what is with Debian 3.0r6? How many people will be able to install > with kernel 2.2 (because of there new boards, USB

RE: Re: 2.2r5 download with jigdo failed

2002-04-07 Thread idd02z46
Hi again Richard et al, Regarding my previous post, it seems I may be doing something wrong here.. I run jigdo (the windows runme.bat though). Since the jigdo menu file hasn't been updated yet, I specify the url of the potato 2.2r6 jigdo file: http://cdimage.debian.org/cd-images/jigdo/2.2_rev

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

2002-04-07 Thread Christian Leber
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:01:13PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > 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. > would it be possible to test MEMDISK on that

Re: Building DVD images

2002-04-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:08:15AM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: >Hello, > >> I also had to hack my list2cds-cram code to use kilobytes [...] >I think instead of depending on python, or any other big, and complicated >stuff it is enough to use bc for this task. >It is small and can work with bigger nu

cvs commit to debian-cd/tools/boot/woody by hertzog

2002-04-07 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-cd/tools/boot/woody who:hertzog time: Sun Apr 7 05:52:26 PDT 2002 Log Message: * Also change the order of flavors in boot.bat. Files: changed:boot-i386 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

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

2002-04-07 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 13:37, Christian Leber wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:01:13PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: ... > > According to this: > > > > http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php > > > > MEMDISK is ... a workaround for BIOSes where ISOLINUX image > > support doesn't work.

cvs commit to debian-cd by 93sam

2002-04-07 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-cd who:93sam time: Sun Apr 7 09:26:59 PDT 2002 Log Message: Added support for DVD-sized images. Specify default image sizes in CONF.sh as DEFBINSIZE and DEFSRCSIZE build.sh and build_all.sh now use these settings to calculate the packages and source fil

cvs commit to debian-cd/debian by 93sam

2002-04-07 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-cd/debian who:93sam time: Sun Apr 7 09:26:59 PDT 2002 Log Message: Added support for DVD-sized images. Specify default image sizes in CONF.sh as DEFBINSIZE and DEFSRCSIZE build.sh and build_all.sh now use these settings to calculate the packages and sou

Re: Multiboot testing please ...

2002-04-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://relativity.phy.olemiss.edu/~cnlawren/woody-i386-1.raw Could you give us a MD5SUM for it? I am pulling it from Mattias and thought about mentioning it in our national Usenet linux group. -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiboot testing please ...

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 07, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > http://relativity.phy.olemiss.edu/~cnlawren/woody-i386-1.raw > > Could you give us a MD5SUM for it? I am pulling it from Mattias and > thought about mentioning it in our national Usenet linux group. quantex ~$

Re: Multiboot testing please ...

2002-04-07 Thread Jim Westveer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 On Sunday 07 April 2002 01:37, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Apr 07, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > Anyway, I burned a CD and tested it, and it seems to work OK. I'll > > post a URL for downloading it for testing as soon as it gets done > > rsyncing. > > > >

ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 07, Jim Westveer wrote: [Something, my reply function killed it...] Yes, it is ISOLINUX-based, not MULTIBOOT. It just got attached to this thread because that's where Raphael mentioned that I was going to work on it. It looks like I forgot to put the PROMPT setting in the config file. Fo

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isolinux test image, debian-cd changes available

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
(CC'd to debian-boot since the discussion there seems to be lingering on this topic too.) Per discussion on debian-cd, I have prepared a test ISO and changes to debian-cd to allow the use of ISOLINUX in the boot sector. The changes to debian-cd are at: http://www.lordsutch.com/cds/debian-cd/is

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 20:14, Chris Lawrence wrote: > Yes, it is ISOLINUX-based, not MULTIBOOT. It just got attached to > this thread because that's where Raphael mentioned that I was going to > work on it. Just tried this -- If one tries an install of the bf24 kernel, when you get to the "Config

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 07, Philip Hands wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 20:14, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > Yes, it is ISOLINUX-based, not MULTIBOOT. It just got attached to > > this thread because that's where Raphael mentioned that I was going to > > work on it. > > Just tried this -- If one tries an install of t

Re: isolinux test image, debian-cd changes available

2002-04-07 Thread Jim Westveer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 On Sunday 07 April 2002 12:54, Chris Lawrence wrote: > (CC'd to debian-boot since the discussion there seems to be lingering > on this topic too.) > > Per discussion on debian-cd, I have prepared a test ISO and changes to > debian-cd to allow the use o

Re: Multiboot testing please ...

2002-04-07 Thread Jim Westveer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 On Sunday 07 April 2002 11:45, Jim Westveer wrote: > On Sunday 07 April 2002 01:37, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > On Apr 07, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > > Anyway, I burned a CD and tested it, and it seems to work OK. I'll > > > post a URL for downloading it

Re: Re: 2.2r5 download with jigdo failed

2002-04-07 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:58:32PM +, idd02z46 wrote: > jigdo-file make-image: Invalid template data - corrupted file? > jigdo-file failed with code 3 - aborting. Oh, I forgot to mention that, sorry... jigdo-lite2win is outdated, the template file format has changed. It might be possible for

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Jim Westveer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 On Sunday 07 April 2002 14:29, Philip Hands wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 20:14, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > Yes, it is ISOLINUX-based, not MULTIBOOT. It just got attached to > > this thread because that's where Raphael mentioned that I was going to >

Re: Multiboot testing please ...

2002-04-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:45:41AM -0700, Jim Westveer écrivait: > Is the "MULTIBOOT" or is this "ISOLINUX" ??? Isolinux. > I tried your disk on two different hosts with Tyan motherboards, > one with one cpu and the second with dual cpu's. Both booted > to the default kernel with-out giving a b

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:29:31PM +0100, Philip Hands écrivait: > Just tried this -- If one tries an install of the bf24 kernel, when you > get to the "Configure Device Driver Modules", it's obviously not taking > account of the kernel it was booted with, but is unpacking the modules > for 2.2.20

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:54:15PM -0500, Chris Lawrence écrivait: > Hmm. I see the problem. There's a separate root.bin for each flavor, > and the code isn't accounting for that. Are you going to fix it also for the boot.bat that is generated by debian-cd in tools/boot/woody/boot-i386 ? Cheer

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 08, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:29:31PM +0100, Philip Hands écrivait: > > Just tried this -- If one tries an install of the bf24 kernel, when you > > get to the "Configure Device Driver Modules", it's obviously not taking > > account of the kernel it was booted with,

Re: isolinux test image, debian-cd changes available (updates)

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 07, Chris Lawrence wrote: > (CC'd to debian-boot since the discussion there seems to be lingering > on this topic too.) > > Per discussion on debian-cd, I have prepared a test ISO and changes to > debian-cd to allow the use of ISOLINUX in the boot sector. OK, I now have a third update, wh

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Philip Hands
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 00:05, Chris Lawrence wrote: > I tracked down the problem... each flavor uses its own root.bin. > After some tweaking, I fixed the build process and updates are now > online (see my lagged mail to the list). Hm, doesn't fix it for the bf2.4 flavour when I try it I'm afraid.

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Philip Hands
I just tried a few other test installs. vanilla works (well it gets past the devices problem), all others, including the default idepci are broken, because the are looking to see, for example: /target/lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci after the drvers install Cheers, Phil. -- Say no to software pat

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 08, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:54:15PM -0500, Chris Lawrence écrivait: > > Hmm. I see the problem. There's a separate root.bin for each flavor, > > and the code isn't accounting for that. > > Are you going to fix it also for the boot.bat that is generated by > de

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 08, Philip Hands wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 00:05, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > > I tracked down the problem... each flavor uses its own root.bin. > > After some tweaking, I fixed the build process and updates are now > > online (see my lagged mail to the list). > > Hm, doesn't fix it fo

Re: isolinux test image, debian-cd changes available

2002-04-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Chris Lawrence wrote on Sun Apr 07, 2002 um 02:54:39PM: > Per discussion on debian-cd, I have prepared a test ISO and changes to > debian-cd to allow the use of ISOLINUX in the boot sector. Looks nice. It is not the ideal thing that I imagined, but it would do the job. But: - BUG! Y

Re: isolinux test image, debian-cd changes available

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 08, Eduard Bloch wrote: > - BUG! You use root.bin for all images, but the root images are >different. Currently, only vanilla is installable with your disk. Yeah. This is now fixed; Phil Hands was kind enough to help me debug this stuff with trashable partition. The problem was that

Re: isolinux test image, debian-cd changes available

2002-04-07 Thread Jim Westveer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 On Sunday 07 April 2002 17:46, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Apr 08, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > - BUG! You use root.bin for all images, but the root images are > >different. Currently, only vanilla is installable with your disk. > > Yeah. This is now f

Re: isolinux test image, debian-cd changes available

2002-04-07 Thread Jim Westveer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 On Sunday 07 April 2002 18:58, Jim Westveer wrote: > On Sunday 07 April 2002 17:46, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > On Apr 08, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > - BUG! You use root.bin for all images, but the root images are > > >different. Currently, only vani

Re: Release notes

2002-04-07 Thread Mark Eichin
> I don't see any harm in making up jigdo files for DVDs --- I don't see Ooh, yes, please - I'd love to be able to make bootable dvds to pass around here [MIT area.] > Of course, if loads of people with DVD writers mail me, I'm likely to be metoo :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: isolinux test image, debian-cd changes available (updates)

2002-04-07 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Apr 07, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > (CC'd to debian-boot since the discussion there seems to be lingering > > on this topic too.) > > > > Per discussion on debian-cd, I have prepared a test ISO and changes to > > debian-cd to allow the use of ISOLINUX

isolinux test image mirror

2002-04-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
We also have a mirror of Chris Lawrence's isolinux test image. We currently have the fifth update and intent to poll for new updates. rsync://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/debian-woody-multiboot http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/ftp/debian-woody-multiboot/ ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/pub/debian-woody-multibo