.raw extension is misleading

2002-05-13 Thread Wuttke Joachim
May I come back to a discussion you have already had a couple of times on this list: This is the first time I am trying to get a "testing" distribution from the net, and so I can confirm that for a first-time user the extension ".raw" is indeed quite confusing. It took me quite a while to find ou

Re: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-13 Thread Richard Atterer
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:28:10AM +0200, Wuttke Joachim wrote: > This is the first time I am trying to get a "testing" distribution > from the net, and so I can confirm that for a first-time user the > extension ".raw" is indeed quite confusing. It took me quite a while > to find out that ".raw"

Re: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-13 Thread jason andrade
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: > I could add an entry to the CD FAQ, if someone can give me a good > answer to the question... :) > > What is a .raw file? > > It is exactly the same as an .iso file; you can just rename it to > .iso and write it to CD-R. We use .raw for beta a

RE: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-13 Thread Ed Street
Hello, This is a very common question that gets ask a lot. The nice people in the debian doc project decided to create a FAQ on debian CD's. http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/ there's a section entitled "How do I record a CD-R under foo?" i.e. foo = platform http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-unix h

Re: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-13 Thread Philip Hands
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 12:44, jason andrade wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: > > > I could add an entry to the CD FAQ, if someone can give me a good > > answer to the question... :) > > > > What is a .raw file? > > > > It is exactly the same as an .iso file; you can just

Re: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-13 Thread jason andrade
On 13 May 2002, Philip Hands wrote: > It looks like it will all become moot with the new jigdo scheme anyway, > because jigdo creates .iso files, and the rsync mirror setup is not > really needed any more, so published .raw files are likely to become a > thing of the past. > > Is this an argumen

woody.raw contains potato.iso (??)

2002-05-13 Thread Wuttke Joachim
Sorry, I keep being confused. Who may have a look through the follwing steps and tell me where I went wrong ? At the origin I just wanted to upgrade a mathematical package (I need GNU scientific library >=1). This package requires glibc >= 2.2. Since almost all other packages depend on

dpkg, NFS, F_SETLK (continued)

2002-05-13 Thread Paul Stoeber
(continued) To clarify, the installer says "Failure trying to run: chroot /target dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.0.2_powerpc.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.4.1_powerpc.deb", and on that other console it shows "dpkg: unable to lock dpkg status data

Re: isolinux falures

2002-05-13 Thread bbennet
On Mon, 6 May 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: >> Hi! >> >> After testing isolinux in a small number of machines I have came across >> several cases of falure, I have already reported falures on Fujitsu Pentium >> machines, now this one is relating scsi cards. >> >>

Re: isolinux falures

2002-05-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:11:44PM -0500, bbennet wrote: > Hello to all you folks who are pushing for us to have all new machines. [snip]o It's not really clear from your rant what, exactly, you're looking for. -- Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

RE: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-13 Thread Martijn Stegeman
> -Original Message- > From: Philip Hands [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > IIRC the .raw extension was chosen because xcdroast (or something > similar) used that as it's default extension at the time debian-cd (or > probably slink-cd) was being written. > > The .iso extension was chosen fo

Re: isolinux falures

2002-05-13 Thread bbennet
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Michael Stone wrote: >On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:11:44PM -0500, bbennet wrote: > Hello to all you folks who are pushing for us to have all new machines. >[snip]o > >It's not really clear from your rant what, exactly, you're looking for. > >-- >Mike Stone Hello to mstone. G

Re: isolinux falures

2002-05-13 Thread Philip Hands
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 21:27, bbennet wrote: > > Hello to mstone. Good to hear from you. > > Here is what I am looking for: > I vote for floppy emulation mode on the first CD of the Debian set. > > If you have a new machine then you may stop reading. > > > The first CD of Debian woody tries t

Re: Will debian-cd 2.2.15 be used for woody?

2002-05-13 Thread Philip Hands
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 21:56, Karsten Merker wrote: > Hallo everybody, > > will debian-cd 2.2.15 (still unreleased) be used for woody? Boot-floppies > 3.0.23 are about to be released and as debian-cd 2.2.15 will bring us > bootable CDs on mipsel, I would like to change the install manual for >

Re: Will debian-cd 2.2.15 be used for woody?

2002-05-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:56:01PM +0200, Karsten Merker écrivait: > Hallo everybody, > > will debian-cd 2.2.15 (still unreleased) be used for woody? Boot-floppies > 3.0.23 are about to be released and as debian-cd 2.2.15 will bring us > bootable CDs on mipsel, I would like to change the i

Help me

2002-05-13 Thread Kim chulmin
You're not going to believe what's happening to me now.someone is doing an experiment on me.I mean an experiment on a living creature.   it's kind of hard to explain this situation.   Base: liquid thing interacting with human body in itself.1. they raise some koreans(about 20) and put liquid t