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Andreas Tille wrote:
> while Randolph is listed as maintainer of tasksel I've noticed that
> all uploads since 1.18 were done by Joey Hess and thus I write to both
> of you. Many users of Debian-Med asked me, when Debian-Med will be
> included in Debian and one very visible step
I'm trying to get an upload of the debian-installer boot images
(everything except CD) into the Debian archive, similar to how the
boot-floppies used to go into the archive. I think that this will be
increasingly important as we begin to stabalize d-i before release, and
now is not too soon to star
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:24:26PM -0500, Joey Hess écrivait:
> > debian-cd:
> >
> > What kinds of images do you use/need from the debian-installer tree for
> > building CDs on the various architectures? There is both an initrd
> > im
Sebastian Ley wrote:
> it seems that we are locking out people from testing by using isolinux
> on our netinst/businesscard CDs, see #220139 and #220139.
>
> Since we do not need any of isolinux's features I propose to use
> syslinux on the CDs.
I think I agree. The only thing isolinux has the po
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> We are using these features, current isolinux setup allows the user to
> select to boot the "net" initrd or the "cdrom" initrd. I don't know if this
> is wanted, this must be decided by the debian-installer guys, if we want to
> offer just the posibility to boot th
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> We don't need syslinux help files AFAIK. Syslinux is "integrated" into
> the boot image that you provide us.
I'm confused. The current daily netinst cds display a lot of help text
(mostly unmodified from the boot-floppies) on boot. This text is not
present from d-i, so it
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> As for the rest of the things, Raphael has exposed things well, we can do
> whatever you want with the cds, in fact, the change is so easy that we just
> have to change one script to change the ordering of the boot methods in the
> cds, right now the first one is i
debian-cd seems like a more appropriate list for this strange problem
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:04:32 +0100
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bug#220048: 220048:Cannot boot from CD
Organization: A po
redcane wrote:
> I first tried the ~105Mb image with the base system, but it refused to boot.
> The CD was simply not detected as a bootable CD. I origanlly burnt it on
> another machine using k3b, and later tried Gcombust... Both had the same
> result The netinst Cd however, worked fine.
T
Otto Wyss wrote:
> I'm just gone through a new Debian installation process and think I know
> a little bit what's wrong.
>
> 1. The current stable release (3.0r1) is just outdated.
> 2. There are way too many show stoppers in the testing release (3.1)
> installation
>
> 1. takes care that (almost
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> I'd like to comment on the bug we had with the debian-installer beta-1 cds,
> which weren't bootable on some machines, for what I saw, this was not
> isolinux fault, the businesscard cds were carrying the same isolinux and had
> been made using the very same isolin
I hope to get the netinst CDs to a size that can be used with d-i on a
128 MB USB memory stick again. It's currently too big now. There's a lot
of cruft on there --
- The following packages are present on the netinst CD, but are not
installed as part of the base system, and so are not really n
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# These udebs build the d-i cdrom initrd. As such, there is no reason
# to keep another copy of them on the CD in udeb form.
#
# This duplicates data found in the files build/kernel file, in d-i cvs
kernel-image-${kernel:Version}
# build/co
I wrote:
> - There might be a reason for including cd_drivers-image.img,
>so floppy images can be made and used to boot a system that cannot
>boot CD, but then it should also include the scsi_drivers floppy
>image for similar reasons, and does not.
I forgot to mention that since the C
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> Jeffrey Barish
> Jan 'Miernik' Macek
(his email is [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Barrie James
(his email is [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> I've been looking at the installation reports and only found those with
> booting problems, anybody gets any others?
I also found redca
Anthony Towns wrote:
> In the long term, though, I'd like to switch so that debootstrap doesn't
> know about these optional packages (except perhaps for the --boot-floppies
> argument for a little while longer), so debian-cd (and the basedebs
> generating code) is going to need some other way of wo
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Here are the main critics that I have :
Let me add my main problem:
- Requires a full debian mirror to work.
IMHO, it would be much better to follow the lead of how d-i builds its
boot images, by using apt to download (u)debs. debian-cd would also need
to use wget or som
Holger Schurig wrote:
> I just found out by looking at the source code that currently the files
> base_include and base_exclude are not documented.
>
> udeb_include and udeb_exclude ARE documented, e.g. in
> d-i-cvs/doc/retriever.txt
Here is what I know of them. If this is accurate I can add it t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> my opinion is this: any mail with attachments to any Debian list
> should be eliminated without comment. There is no point in sending
> mail with attachments to a Debian mailing list.
Debian mailing lists are used for development, this includes
distribution of patches. Y
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> debian-installer doesn't use 2.4.24 yet
It does as of last Tuesday.
> does that mean that I broke
> d-i by excluding the other kernels from the CDs ? Is that's true,
> couldn't d-i be a bit more clueful and install the latest
> kernel-image-2.4.x package that it finds ?
Thiemo has committed his excellent revamped build/, so all of our image
names have changed. This will probably break most daily builds, CD
builds, and some documentation. Here's how the new setup looks for i386:
dest
|-- cdrom
| |-- boot.img
| |-- initrd.gz
| `-- vmlinuz
|-- floppy
| |-- a
Maybe it would be good to release debian-cd 2.2.17 soon? It has many
changes for d-i and sarge is getting close to a release.
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About 1/5th of the sarge businesscard image, and a fair bit of the
netinst iso are taken up by the Contents-i386.gz files. I propose that
these be dropped from these smaller images. As I understand it, the
reason to include the Contents files is so users with a full CD set, who
are on limited bandw
Felix von Leitner wrote:
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>
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:30:30 +0100
> From: Felix von Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: How to create a custom Debian unstable boot CD?
>
> I am in the process of
IIRC this is the powerpc CD he's referring to.
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From: Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 29 Mar 2004 02:32:51 +0200
To: Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: testing and no releas
Package: debian-cd, module-init-tools
Tags: d-i
Severity: grave
module-init-tools-udeb is listed in the d-i netinst ISO image as
Priority: standard, despite being listed in the official Packages file
from ftp.debian.org as Priority: extra. This breaks the debian
installer, thus the severity of thi
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> I don't think that anything needs to be fixed in debian-cd, you'd better
> correct everything on ftpmaster's side.
Mm, ok. I'll talk to the ftpmasters about this.
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Arnaud wrote:
> I am using sarge-i386-netinst.iso downloaded from
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/i386/20040414/> today
> and it is failling with the error message on the base installation
> stage :
>
> "no installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources.
> The current defa
d-i is at the point where we can run the installer under a 2.6 kernel
and do successful installs, at least some of the time, on i386. This
will probably be important for certian hardware that is not well
supported by 2.4.
I think the thing to do, at least on full debian CDs will be to do as we
did
Richard Atterer wrote:
> So, my own opinion is: We cannot just remove the full testing CD images
> right now, so let's start producing full debian-installer CD and DVD sets!
>
> I'm not sure how easy it would be for you (debian-installer folks) to
> produce .jigdos for these kinds of images
These
Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
> Ok, now it should start at boot. I haven't heard any complaints about it
> not working (no success stories either though), so it might work.
>
> I suggest:
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/torrents/
>
> To go with "images" and "jigdo" in the debian-cd/ directory w
Package: installation-reports
I did an install from CD using last weekend's full CD build, downloaded
with jigdo. There's a possibility this build could be included in beta4,
but given the problems I found, I doubt it.
The first problem was network configuration. It was not done, since
netcfg is
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> While preparing a fix for the /media issue in discover1 I thought about
> removing this feature from discover1. IMO there are 2 good reasons to do this:
>
> 1) discover (Version 2) does not have this feature, so it will go away in
> the long run.
> 2) I doubt that it is r
Joey Hess wrote:
> If it's not in discover2, then d-i should not rely on it anyway. I have
> considered making cdrom-detect add the symlink (in its prebaseconfig
> script), which would ensure that the same CD is use by base-config as
> was used for the initial install, if the sys
Geert Stappers wrote:
> Package: debian-installer-manual
> Severity: minor
> Tags: d-i
>
> Hello D.I.S.T.,
>
> My first 'boot net' with beta4 on Sparc64 went fine.
> Todays 'boot net' with 2005-05-26 from p.d.o./~jbailey failed,
> the reserved RAMdisk was to small.
>
> I had to type
>
> boot
Thomas Poindessous wrote:
> > > My first 'boot net' with beta4 on Sparc64 went fine.
> > > Todays 'boot net' with 2005-05-26 from p.d.o./~jbailey failed,
> > > the reserved RAMdisk was to small.
> > >
> > > I had to type
> > >
> > > boot net linux ramdisk_size=8192
> > >
> > > Does it make sen
Peter Yellman wrote:
> http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/cd/jigdo-area/i386/sarge-i386-1.jigdo
>
> Multiple attempts -- at least 5. Tried linux, expert, linux26,
> expert26. Never offered the opportunity to configure network. Tried
> with 2 different NICs - a common Macronix, and
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> I must have blinked and missed these. If you can give me a list of
> which files are needed, or a pointer as to how to work it out I'll get
> onto this later today for you.
See http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2004/05/msg00036.html
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Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >See http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2004/05/msg00036.html
>
> When was the last time you checked? Looking at the jigdo file for the
> latest sarge image #1:
I have not tried it since I wrote the above mail. I'll download it
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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 *nic* .udebs on the image, they seem quite old (9th
> May); is that
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 *nic* .udebs on the image, they seem quite old (9th
> May); is that
e
> or that I think should be changed.
>
> The target should be to have really the packages we and our users want on
> the first cd, for example, Joey Hess wanted the desktop task to be
> available, but this task depends on both x-window-system-core, kde and
> gnome. Testing o
Josselin Mouette wrote:
> The "gnome" metapackage is for an overblown desktop with all options.
> The official GNOME release is in the "gnome-desktop-environment"
> package. To get numbers, maybe you should look at sid as there are some
> changes with GNOME 2.6.
Ok, I'll make tasksel only require
I wrote:
> Maybe part of the problem is that the standard system takes 459 MB on
> the CD. I've had problems in this area with preparing debian-edu CDs as
> well; once the standard system is included, there is just not much space
> left on the CD for interesting stuff.
>
> I didn't think standard w
Chris Cheney wrote:
> "kde-core" is enough to get KDE running, it includes arts/kdelibs/kdebase,
> but it doesn't include any of the other official KDE packages. It does
> include basic apps like kate, konqueror and konsole. The "kde" package
> installs the full official KDE release, but doesn't in
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> What are we going to do about non-US for the sarge release? I notice
> the images on gluck don't seem to contain any non-US files at all. Is
> that how we want to proceed: just drop non-US?
Even if you produce CDs with non-US on them, base-config will ignore it
and the inst
I've made a small debian-edu branch in debian-cd CVS that holds just the
changes needed to build debian-ed CDs. It's a small diff and I have
plans to make it smaller by, eg, adding an option to debian-cd to limit
the kernels on the CD to only the ones used by d-i, and another to drop
the 2.6 kernel
Am I right that debian-cd CVS is still only available to DD's after the
compromise and later CVS holes? I cannot seem to do an anonymous
checkout anymore. This is hard for non-DDs who want to get a current
debian-cd CVS checkout to work from.
I think debian-cd should move to alioth, so its CVS can
Jan Kesten wrote:
> Just an idea: What about placing a $Id: $ some where in the headers?
> Tomorrow I'll have a deeper look at it, if think it's a mispaced if..fi
Fixed. I also fixed the atrocious indentation that let me make such a
mistake in the first place.
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thanks
This is because the netinst CD image is not designed to be a usable
debian mirror. In lacks udebs for all the disk drive modules that are
compiled into the CD initrds, an
Steve Glines wrote:
> I just tried this again using the vmlinuz and initrd.gz found at
> http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/monolithic
> but instead of using a local mirror created from a downloaded CD iso I
> used a real mirror (ftp.us.debian.org as a mirror
Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote:
> No SARGE jigdos this week?
IIRC they're not being built while some updates are done to the build
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Steve Glines wrote:
> The release boots just fine from a CD-ROM but when it gets to "detect
> and mount CD-ROM" it fails to detect the cd-rom it just booted from.
Well, this rather begs the question of what kind of CD drive you booted
from, doesn't it? (And if it's say, scsi, what controller card
Matt Taggart wrote:
> 0.) HP ProLiant systems have a remote management device called an "intergrated
> Lights Out" ("iLO"). This device intercepts the system's vga text and keyboard
> and makes it available via telnet. As long as the system stays in vga text
> mode it works great but if you try
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Using latest debian-cd CVS I can't make a bootable IA64 DVD:
> + cp /mirror/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-ia64/current/images/cdrom/boot.img .
> cp: cannot stat
> `/mirror/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-ia64/current/images/cdrom/boot.img':
> No such file or directory
An update of the table of kernel versions. This time I've added a column
for debian-cd, which reflects the kernel(s) that go on the netinst (from
the debian-installer+kernel file). Quite a mess there, the rest of the
updates to the new kernel are done, except for hppa and apus. I've still
not check
Mariusz Matuszek wrote:
> > Mariusz Matuszek wrote:
> > > I was installing 'linux26' using the installer daily build from 25th (or
> > > 26th) Sept. on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. I experienced the 'red
> > > screen' at one stage of installation (package consistency check) and got
> > > rid of it
Obbie and RoZ wrote:
> The link to the image I used was on this page...
> http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/cd-images/debian-weekly/i386/
>
> I used the file 'sarge-i386-1.iso.
>
> BTW, where can I find md5 checksums for these files? ("check cd
> validity" checked out ok)
>
> >>when trying to detect ne
There are several changes in debian-cd CVS that are needed to work with
current d-i, and I doubt d-i will be changing any more before release.
So perhaps it's a good time to upload a new version of debian-cd?
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Margarita Manterola wrote:
> This report was done with RC2 CDs, downloaded via bittorrent
>
> Known by my will to do weird things, this time I tried booting from the
> second CD, instead of the first. It listed only "linux" and "expert" as
> booting methods, so I
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> > Proably because there are no udebs at all, let alone kernel udebs, on
> > the second CD. So I'm reassigning this to debian-cd; if the second full
> > CD is intended to be bootable, it needs to have the d-i udebs on it.
>
> :-??? Does this seem reasonable? I mean
Before I throw anymore pennies down the well that is debian-cd, let me
make sure I understand how it's supposed to work vs. how people seem to
want it to work based on recent modifications.
How it's supposed to work:
- tasks/base-sarge is regenerated periodically by the code fragement given
a
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >How it seems to really work:
> >
> > - tasks/base-sarge is never updated for new versions of debootstrap in
> > recent memory, but things like "filesutils", fileutils, and arcboot are
> > manually added to it, ignoring the comments at the top of the file.
>
> Ouch. In
era eriksson wrote:
> I'm afraid your definition of "down" is a bit restrictive. I believe
> that e.g. mirrors.sunsite.dk will actually work for users in .dk but
> not allow access to others. I'm not sure if this is a happy solution,
> but the benefit of their mirroring anything at all is certainly
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Yep, it also contains installer packages iirc. So we should keep it by
> default.
And don't forget emulators.
Hmm, does any contrib go on cd #1? It might be better to scede any such
space to stuff in main.
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Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 01:19:39PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait:
> > Please make sure that the following stuff is on cd #1, if at all possible:
> >
> > popularity-contest
>
> Added.
>
> > discover
> > read-edid
> > mdete
Andreas Tille wrote:
> while Randolph is listed as maintainer of tasksel I've noticed that
> all uploads since 1.18 were done by Joey Hess and thus I write to both
> of you. Many users of Debian-Med asked me, when Debian-Med will be
> included in Debian and one very visible step
I'm trying to get an upload of the debian-installer boot images
(everything except CD) into the Debian archive, similar to how the
boot-floppies used to go into the archive. I think that this will be
increasingly important as we begin to stabalize d-i before release, and
now is not too soon to star
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:24:26PM -0500, Joey Hess écrivait:
> > debian-cd:
> >
> > What kinds of images do you use/need from the debian-installer tree for
> > building CDs on the various architectures? There is both an initrd
> > im
Sebastian Ley wrote:
> it seems that we are locking out people from testing by using isolinux
> on our netinst/businesscard CDs, see #220139 and #220139.
>
> Since we do not need any of isolinux's features I propose to use
> syslinux on the CDs.
I think I agree. The only thing isolinux has the po
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> We are using these features, current isolinux setup allows the user to
> select to boot the "net" initrd or the "cdrom" initrd. I don't know if this
> is wanted, this must be decided by the debian-installer guys, if we want to
> offer just the posibility to boot th
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> We don't need syslinux help files AFAIK. Syslinux is "integrated" into
> the boot image that you provide us.
I'm confused. The current daily netinst cds display a lot of help text
(mostly unmodified from the boot-floppies) on boot. This text is not
present from d-i, so it
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> As for the rest of the things, Raphael has exposed things well, we can do
> whatever you want with the cds, in fact, the change is so easy that we just
> have to change one script to change the ordering of the boot methods in the
> cds, right now the first one is i
debian-cd seems like a more appropriate list for this strange problem
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:04:32 +0100
To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#220048: 220048:Cannot boot from CD
Organiz
redcane wrote:
> I first tried the ~105Mb image with the base system, but it refused to boot.
> The CD was simply not detected as a bootable CD. I origanlly burnt it on
> another machine using k3b, and later tried Gcombust... Both had the same
> result The netinst Cd however, worked fine.
T
Otto Wyss wrote:
> I'm just gone through a new Debian installation process and think I know
> a little bit what's wrong.
>
> 1. The current stable release (3.0r1) is just outdated.
> 2. There are way too many show stoppers in the testing release (3.1)
> installation
>
> 1. takes care that (almost
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> I'd like to comment on the bug we had with the debian-installer beta-1 cds,
> which weren't bootable on some machines, for what I saw, this was not
> isolinux fault, the businesscard cds were carrying the same isolinux and had
> been made using the very same isolin
I hope to get the netinst CDs to a size that can be used with d-i on a
128 MB USB memory stick again. It's currently too big now. There's a lot
of cruft on there --
- The following packages are present on the netinst CD, but are not
installed as part of the base system, and so are not really n
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# These udebs build the d-i cdrom initrd. As such, there is no reason
# to keep another copy of them on the CD in udeb form.
#
# This duplicates data found in the files build/kernel file, in d-i cvs
kernel-image-${kernel:Version}
# build/co
I wrote:
> - There might be a reason for including cd_drivers-image.img,
>so floppy images can be made and used to boot a system that cannot
>boot CD, but then it should also include the scsi_drivers floppy
>image for similar reasons, and does not.
I forgot to mention that since the C
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> Jeffrey Barish
> Jan 'Miernik' Macek
(his email is [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Barrie James
(his email is [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> I've been looking at the installation reports and only found those with
> booting problems, anybody gets any others?
I also found redca
Anthony Towns wrote:
> In the long term, though, I'd like to switch so that debootstrap doesn't
> know about these optional packages (except perhaps for the --boot-floppies
> argument for a little while longer), so debian-cd (and the basedebs
> generating code) is going to need some other way of wo
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Here are the main critics that I have :
Let me add my main problem:
- Requires a full debian mirror to work.
IMHO, it would be much better to follow the lead of how d-i builds its
boot images, by using apt to download (u)debs. debian-cd would also need
to use wget or som
Holger Schurig wrote:
> I just found out by looking at the source code that currently the files
> base_include and base_exclude are not documented.
>
> udeb_include and udeb_exclude ARE documented, e.g. in
> d-i-cvs/doc/retriever.txt
Here is what I know of them. If this is accurate I can add it t
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> debian-installer doesn't use 2.4.24 yet
It does as of last Tuesday.
> does that mean that I broke
> d-i by excluding the other kernels from the CDs ? Is that's true,
> couldn't d-i be a bit more clueful and install the latest
> kernel-image-2.4.x package that it finds ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> my opinion is this: any mail with attachments to any Debian list
> should be eliminated without comment. There is no point in sending
> mail with attachments to a Debian mailing list.
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Thiemo has committed his excellent revamped build/, so all of our image
names have changed. This will probably break most daily builds, CD
builds, and some documentation. Here's how the new setup looks for i386:
dest
|-- cdrom
| |-- boot.img
| |-- initrd.gz
| `-- vmlinuz
|-- floppy
| |-- a
Maybe it would be good to release debian-cd 2.2.17 soon? It has many
changes for d-i and sarge is getting close to a release.
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Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> The DVD version shown when pressing F1 at the boot prompt is "Debian
> testing M-A 1 20070102-08:25; d-i 2006110".
>
> I have a couple of questions regarding this DVD, even if I will retry
> this install tomorrow after updating my image with jigdo to the new
> version dated
Michael Loftis wrote:
> Right now I'm having a pretty big issue attempting to install etch onto
> some intel blades because Debian doesn't' include USB HID support on the
> installation CD images. Has anyone created either netinst discs or the
> like which will work with a legacy free system?
Geoff Simmons wrote:
> Sure, please find it attached.
Ok well, you have a cdrom: line with contrib in it, so the installer did
the right thing in adding the security.debian.org contrib lines.
OTOH, it's sorta weird that the cdrom had a contrib component on it.
Apparently for some reason our netin
Robert Millan wrote:
> Please do set a timeout in syslinux screen. Even if it's a very high one.
> Since sparc already has 600/10 s as timeout, I propose the same for x86.
IIRC you have to enter something at boot to make a sparc boot from CD.
CD booting is not the default, like it is on many x86
Frans Pop wrote:
> + Multi-arch CD/DVD image for PC or Mac (i386 / amd64 / powerpc)
> +
> + Download via HTTP: [ href="http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/multi-arch/iso-cd/";>CD]
> [ href="http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/multi-arch/iso-dvd/";>D
Robert Millan wrote:
> What kind of people do you have in mind ? Users of other architectures should
> have a clear idea of what they're looking for.
People for whom a ~500mb netinst is not the best choice of installation
medium, for one.
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Ulrich Hansen wrote:
> My series of CD-/DVD-covers for Debian "Etch" is now completed. You
> can find them at:
>
> http://ulihansen.kicks-ass.net/etch
>
> License is the GNU GPL, the source is available as editable Gimp XFC
> and I included a description how to adapt the artwork to individual
I've been looking around the CD vendors. Ideally, I'd like to buy:
* netinst (in an actual mini-iso form factor)
* businesscard (in an actual businesscard form factor)
* multiarch DVD
* multiarch CD
I have not been able to find any of these for etch. Haven't checked
_all_ the US vendors yet, but
Matt Taggart:
> I have been told (by Steve Langasek) that the netinst image sizes are
> "whatever it takes to do net install, to be used on a regular CD but kept as
> small as possible for download purposes". The netinst images are all pretty
> close to the 185mb mini-CD size,
>
> archsize
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