Re: USB memory stick

2004-06-09 Thread Jacques
Maarten Weijman wrote: Debian team, I am having a slight problem with the live debian cd, because my computer does not have a cd drive. Would it be possible to write the cd images to a usb memory stick and let it work? Your help would be very much apreciated. yours sincerely, Maarten Weijma

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Re: JTE (Jigdo Template Export) v1.0

2004-06-09 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
On Jun 07 2004, Richard Atterer wrote: > Yes, but once you can use the cache, mkisofs needn't even read the file > data anymore. It could just skip over the file, output the filename to the > .jte and leave the rest to jigdo-file. I can imagine that image creation > would be a matter of 30 seconds

Re: JTE (Jigdo Template Export) v1.0

2004-06-09 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:35:10PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > Richard: I remember that you were about to put out a new version of jigdo > that could help in this, how is this going? It's on my TODO list, but I'm afraid I haven't found the time yet to work on it. :-/ Richard --

Re: JTE (Jigdo Template Export) v1.0

2004-06-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:35:10PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: >On Jun 07 2004, Richard Atterer wrote: >> Yes, but once you can use the cache, mkisofs needn't even read the file >> data anymore. It could just skip over the file, output the filename to the >> .jte and leave the rest to ji

Testing CD/DVD images "Official"?

2004-06-09 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
I'm working on getting setup to become yet another Debian-CD vendor, and am wondering about the proper labeling for the testing CD/DVD images available from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/ Can images formed from the .jigdo files/templates available here be labeled 'official' (ass

Debian_sarge task missing debian-installer+kernel?

2004-06-09 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! Joeyh Hess has told me today that he had noticed that some files included in the debian-installer+kernel were not included in some cds (debian-educ) and that after seing this he had found that debian-installer+kernel was not included in the Debian_sarge task. I believe that debian-installer+k

Re: JTE (Jigdo Template Export) v1.0

2004-06-09 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 19:21, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:35:10PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > Richard: I remember that you were about to put out a new version of jigdo > > that could help in this, how is this going? > > It's on my TODO list, but I'm afraid

Re: Bug#253033: installation-reports

2004-06-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:11:39PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hmmm. That wasn't very successful. Netcfg loaded fine off the CD, but >> only after I loaded it by hand. The 3c59x driver for the network card >> in the test machine just didn't get loaded. >> >> Looking at the *n

Re: TRANS.TBL on CDs

2004-06-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:17:23AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >Quoting Steve McIntyre: >> Guys, >> >> We're still putting TRANS.TBL files in every directory on the >> CDs. Surely by now we can just lose them? They're going to be wasting >> space on all the images (especially important on netins

Re: Testing CD/DVD images "Official"?

2004-06-09 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:05:11PM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > Can images formed from the .jigdo files/templates available here be > labeled 'official' (assuming MD5 sums match) ie: > > Debian GNU/Linux > Testing "Sarge" > Official Snapshot > alpha Binary-1 > Labelling the CDs

Re: TRANS.TBL on CDs

2004-06-09 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> >Agreed. Feel free to commit a fix. > Done. I have applied your changes to gluck before today's build, but I do not see any important changes in sizes :- at least comparing today's build with yesterday's and I have checked them and there is no TRANS.TBL files on them. Regards... -- Manty/B

Re: Testing CD/DVD images "Official"?

2004-06-09 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> I'm working on getting setup to become yet another Debian-CD vendor, and > am wondering about the proper labeling for the testing CD/DVD images > available from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/ I wouldn't even think in distributing those images, either official or unofficial, the

Re: TRANS.TBL on CDs

2004-06-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:45:42PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: >> >Agreed. Feel free to commit a fix. >> Done. > >I have applied your changes to gluck before today's build, but I do not see >any important changes in sizes :- at least comparing today's build with >yesterday's and I ha

Re: JTE (Jigdo Template Export) v1.0

2004-06-09 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:34:03PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't see us (quite) getting that far. To generate the > md5 of the full image file (which is kind of useful), we need to read all > of the data through anyway. You can't simply lump together multiple md5 > chunks.

jigdo vs binary diff

2004-06-09 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:45:05PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > what advantages I'll get when using jigdo to update my old image instead of > patching the old iso with rdiff. Well, Debian doesn't offer CD image upgrades in rdiff/xdelta format. Generally, IMHO jigdo has the following advantages

Re: JTE (Jigdo Template Export) v1.0

2004-06-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:16:23AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: >On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:34:03PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Unfortunately, I don't see us (quite) getting that far. To generate the >> md5 of the full image file (which is kind of useful), we need to read all >> of the data th

Re: jigdo vs binary diff

2004-06-09 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 10 June 2004 01:35, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:45:05PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > > what advantages I'll get when using jigdo to update my old image instead > > of patching the old iso with rdiff. > > Well, Debian doesn't offer CD image upgrades in rdiff/xde