Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-31 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:54:47AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: > > What's wrong with basic-desktop being x-window-system-core plus a WM > > plus xterm? As I said, x-window-system contains things which are far > > away from being "basic". If we force it

Re: CD release announcement

2002-05-31 Thread Philip Hands
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 04:00, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > Where will the jigdo files turn up? open is a bit closer, but I get good > rates to raff too. Just wondering if I should have that cron job that > mirrors jigdo-area point at cdimage or open. I'll be building the images on open, but the pl

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:54:47AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > On Thu, 30 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > What's wrong with basic-desktop being x-window-system-core plus a WM > > > plus xterm? As I said, x-window-system contains things which a

About harware detection and configuration tools in 1st CD

2002-05-31 Thread Mantas K.
Hello, I still think, that including some packages on 1st CD (which use just little space) would improve much debian woody installation from CDs. I got no answer to my suggestions about improving 1st debian CD and desktop task from official maintainer :( Previously Philip Hands wrote: > OK, th

Re: woody-src-?.jigdo template url incorrect,

2002-05-31 Thread Richard Atterer
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:08:30AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > Also, woody-src-6 failed to verify through jigdo-lite, but its > md5sum match the value in the MD5SUM file There is a problem with the md5sum code in jigdo 0.6.6 and less, but so far I thought that it only occurred on big-endian arc

questions about other languages install docs in CD

2002-05-31 Thread Jose Ramon Alvarez Sanchez
Hi, I am testing the pre-release versions of Debian 3.0 i386 CD-1 (pre9 download through jigdo OK). There is a [CD]/install/doc/ directory with the install instructions (in english) and some directories for other languages (ca, cs, da, es, fr, it, pt), but i miss the "index.??.html" inside th

Re: About harware detection and configuration tools in 1st CD

2002-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
Mantas K. wrote: > data produced by popularity-contest are only about systems connected > to internet [...] AFAIK, popularity-contest uses email to send the data. You don't need a permanent internet connection, a dial-up should work as well. Data from popularity-contest may not be as realiable a

Re: About harware detection and configuration tools in 1st CD

2002-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
Mantas K. wrote: > Most simple users don't like debian, because they think, that there are not > user-friendly configuration tools (they simply download 1 CD, try to install > and find that they are rigth). Well, if they really think Debian is just CD #1, I would much prefer that they continue us

Re: woody-src-?.jigdo template url incorrect,

2002-05-31 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Fri, 31 May 2002 14:15:09 +0200 "Richard Atterer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:08:30AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > Also, woody-src-6 failed to verify through jigdo-lite, but its > > md5sum match the value in the MD5SUM file > > There is a problem with the md5sum

Re: About harware detection and configuration tools in 1st CD

2002-05-31 Thread Chris Lawrence
On May 31, Santiago Vila wrote: > Mantas K. wrote: > > Most simple users don't like debian, because they think, that there are not > > user-friendly configuration tools (they simply download 1 CD, try to install > > and find that they are rigth). > > Well, if they really think Debian is just CD #

Failure creating image

2002-05-31 Thread W. van den Akker
Hi,   I have downloaded the .jigdo and .template files from cdimage.debian.org. It were files from the 3.0-pre9 woody directory. Next step was creating the images (I use jigdo version 0.6.6, but 0.6.5 also does it).   I used jigdo-file -j woody-i386-1.jigdo make-image (or mi).   The program

Re: First try on Hurd-H4-CD1 jigdo files

2002-05-31 Thread Patrick Strasser
Philip Charles wrote: > On Fri, 31 May 2002, Patrick Strasser wrote: > > Cut > >>To sum up, first we need a list of files that can be found on mirrors >>with their corresponding location, what I'm trying to do ATM. And second >>the files itself for the checksums, which we get from the mounted i

Re: Failure creating image

2002-05-31 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 09:13, W. van den Akker wrote: > Hi, > > I have downloaded the .jigdo and .template files from cdimage.debian.org. > It were files from the 3.0-pre9 woody directory. > Next step was creating the images (I use jigdo version 0.6.6, but 0.6.5 also > does it). > > I used jigdo-

Re: Failure creating image

2002-05-31 Thread W. van den Akker
Greg, I've tried it also with jigdo-lite. After the prompts I get the same message. I think jigdo-file is called from jigdo-lite. gr, Willem - Original Message - From: "Greg C. Madden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 8:28 PM Subject: Re: Failure cr

Woody Mini-cd results

2002-05-31 Thread D & E Radel
Hi to Chris Lawrence and everyone at Debian!   A HUGE thank you for compiling such a cool cd. Recently due to a disaster I had to re-install my entire system and didn't want to use my aged Potato CD's or download 8 full beta cds of Woody.   Your 185MB CD was a life-saver! It's a keeper!   I

Re: Woody Mini-cd results

2002-05-31 Thread jason andrade
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, D & E Radel wrote: > A HUGE thank you for compiling such a cool cd. Recently due to a disaster I had to >re-install my > entire system and didn't want to use my aged Potato CD's or download 8 full beta cds >of Woody. it's a bummer there's a user perception around that you