Re: Distribution

2015-04-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 04:43:44PM -0500, ESB MEX wrote: > Hello, I want to know how I can become a distributor to market debian versions > dvd in Mexico, thanks. We're not a company, and while we do make DVD ISOs, we don't actually create them ourselves. So you can just download the ISO, produce

Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?

2015-08-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 07:20:53AM +0200, Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 22:40:32 -0300 > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > And having get.debian.org as canonical maybe? But indeed I like the idea. > > Not only canonical but also gentoo does. > https://get.gentoo.

Re: Summary of the Debian CD BoF at DC15

2015-09-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 01:52:20PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Misc questions and discussion > = > > Q. Multi-architecture CDs - possible? > > A. Yes, but it depends massively on the architectures involved. We >already do multi-arch amd64/i386 CDs/DVDs, and we u

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 09:04:29PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 11/12/2015 04:52 PM, kuLa wrote: > > On 2015-11-12 15:58:03, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> As per the discussions during debconf, to be called "official", the > >> images have to be built: > >> - directly from an unmodified stable >

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 11:28:57PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 11/15/2015 06:50 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 09:04:29PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> On 11/12/2015 04:52 PM, kuLa wrote: > >>> On 2015-11-12 15:58:03, Thomas Go

Re: Debian images on Microsoft Azure cloud

2015-11-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 03:17:22PM +, Marcin Kulisz wrote: > On 2015-11-15 18:50:45, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > I believe a more sensible requirement would be that "it is theoretically > > possible to build a filesystem image on a cloud provider's > > infrast

UEFI support for mini.iso?

2016-02-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi folks, The "netboot" target of the debian-installer build system builds the PXE-booting files for the installer, as well as a 30-40MB "mini.iso" image that contains just the kernel and initramfs for the installer to boot. This makes it smaller than the netinst, which makes it my personal favour

Re: UEFI support for mini.iso?

2016-02-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 09:42:19AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > This image however does not support booting on a UEFI-only system. > > It does support EFI booting from CDROM. At least with qemu and OVMF > as EFI firmware. Right. I

Re: UEFI support for mini.iso?

2016-02-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 09:21:31AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/tree/build/util/geniso_hybrid_plus_firmware_partition > > I add a line isohybrid -u "$iso" > >

nbd-client-udeb not found?

2017-05-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, This might be me, I'm not sure. I'm trying to build a VM image that uses NBD to double-check whether #862531 is, as I suspect, indeed not an issue with nbd-client. However, when booting the jessie netinst, my "modules=partman-nbd" command-line parameter to the installer doesn't work, since th

Re: Should not .torrent files be listed in SHA512SUMS et.al. ?

2018-02-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 02:48:49PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 03:41:14PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >Hi, > > > >after having looked at > > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-dvd/ > >i wonder whether the .torrent files are sufficently signed on the

Re: gnat Linux/HPPA and Linux/MIPS

2018-07-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 02:15:20PM +0200, Carlo Pisani wrote: > hi > I am looking for an old version of Gnat for Linux/HPPA and Linux/MIPS > I was told that Debian had an old archive with gnat for such architectures > > if so, where can I download them? There are two: - snapshot.debian.org conta

Re: Register as an official mirror

2018-08-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, For future reference, there is a mailinglist specifically for mirror maintainers. I've added it to Cc for this mail. On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 06:38:56AM +, Riseops wrote: > Good Day, > > We would like to register as an official debian-cd mirror. http:// > mirror.rise.ph/debian-cd/ Please

Re: LinuxCollections.com listing on Vendors page (Second request)

2019-10-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:04:58AM -0700, LinuxCollections.com Customer Service wrote: > Hi Debian Team, > > We have just released the USB Debian Complete Collection for Debian 10, and > noticed we do not have USB listed at your site. > > Could you please add the USB notation to the media w

Re: [RFC] Consequences for official CD/DVD images for Lenny

2008-12-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:11:20AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > The regular powerpc DVD will switch from GNOME-based to all-desktop. The > only thing missing is offering boot options to select different desktop > environments as we'll now do for x86, but that could possibly be > implemented by some

FOSDEM talk?

2009-01-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, Since I'm having issues filling the FOSDEM schedule for the first time in years, and since I fucked up with Steve's Debian-CD talk a few years ago, I thought I'd ask you guys if any of you would be interested in holding a talk in the Debian developers' room at FOSDEM. It might be a nice way t

Re: Bits from the Debian CD team

2009-01-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:32:07PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > That depends on what you mean by a multiarch Blu-ray image. The > inherent nastiness of the HFS hybrid code means that we probably won't > be able to produce BD images including powerpc at all. BD boot code is > identical to that on

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-04-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 08:56:14AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > >Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >> There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common) > > >> using CDs and DV

Re: Small inaccuracy on www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/

2013-05-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 07-05-13 00:54, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > There is a small inaccuracy here: > > http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ > > On that page it says that FreeBSD users can install the jigdo package > from /usr/ports/ftp/jigdo > > That may perhaps hav been true in the past, but at present, Free

Bug#762392: Publish self-contained debootstrapped tarballs

2014-09-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:12:20PM +0300, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2014-09-21 at 21:46 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > [snip] > > > Anyone that can deal with those issues after installing a tarball should > > have no trouble at all running {c}debootstrap themselves. > >

Re: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > I'm not 100% sure that partman-efi is the right package for the bug > report, but it's as good as any. So, it's way past time to fix this > particular bug. After a fair amount of playing with systems like this > and discussing with f

Re: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:26:20AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> If the user wants to continue, we could even suggest blanking the &