Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
Eduard Block wrote: >#include >* Steve McIntyre [Wed, Dec 20 2006, 06:29:04PM]: > >> Gnome vs. KDE vs. XFCE >> == >> >> The KDE and XFCE variants of CD#1 are now being produced to give more >> choice to people for initial installation. By default, CD#1 has always >> meant to b

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Steve McIntyre [Wed, Dec 20 2006, 06:29:04PM]: > Gnome vs. KDE vs. XFCE > == > > The KDE and XFCE variants of CD#1 are now being produced to give more > choice to people for initial installation. By default, CD#1 has always > meant to be enough to install a fully-f

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-28 Thread Joey Hess
Note that the XFCE CD originally announced in the head of this thread is actually working now. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso It won't install xdm though.. that will probably be fixed in time for next week's build, along with hopefull

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 08:32:28PM +, Thiemo Seufer wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >[snip] >> mips >> >> jealously scribbles all over the first 512 bytes > >I figure that's a DVH "Disk Volume Header" as used on SGI machines. Yup, exactly. I borrowed the layout from your own genisovh progra

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-28 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Steve McIntyre wrote: [snip] > mips > > jealously scribbles all over the first 512 bytes I figure that's a DVH "Disk Volume Header" as used on SGI machines. > mipsel > == > bytes 000-008 : 0-padding > 008-011 : magic header > 012-015 : boot mode > 016-019 : load address

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 12:57:44PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >Steve McIntyre dijo [Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:04:54PM +]: >> Bad news I'm afraid. I've worked through the mkisofs boot code again, >> and I get: >> (...) >> I'm looking further to see if it's at all possible to get (e.g.) hppa >> and

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Please follow the Reply-To: and head over to debian-cd if you want to discuss this further... ] On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:04:54PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Bad news I'm afraid. I've worked through the mkisofs boot code again, >and I get: > >alpha:Writing alpha boot descriptor at ext

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Steve McIntyre dijo [Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:04:54PM +]: > Bad news I'm afraid. I've worked through the mkisofs boot code again, > and I get: > (...) > I'm looking further to see if it's at all possible to get (e.g.) hppa > and alpha to live in the same boot sector, but it's really not likely.

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:33:18PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:43:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: >> > I'm sure they're, so can't we go for a new multiarch containing hppa >> > and ia64 only or even i386, hppa and ia64 ? > >> Hmm, keeping i386 on it is an interesting idea.

Documentation CD (was Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly)

2006-12-22 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:21:01PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 22 December 2006 11:07, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is done (I assume it's not) but I would really like > > the DVDs / CDs to have a 'documentation media' which could be used to re

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 22 December 2006 11:07, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > I'm not sure if this is done (I assume it's not) but I would really like > the DVDs / CDs to have a 'documentation media' which could be used to read > documentation without having to install the system. I like the ide

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-22 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 06:29:04PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > I'm still expecting to add Live CDs to the list here before we > release. Otherwise, I think we're about set. If there's anything else > you'd like us to do or anything you'd like to ask about, please reply > to this mail - note the

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > I checked the log, the current muti dvd doesn't seem to have any desktop > packages on it, not even gnome-desktop-environment. Wrong log as it turns out. The gnome task is there, in full, as are almost all other tasks, except for a few of the last language tasks. The kde task di

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:43:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > I'm sure they're, so can't we go for a new multiarch containing hppa > > and ia64 only or even i386, hppa and ia64 ? > Hmm, keeping i386 on it is an interesting idea. Or it could have alpha, > hppa, and ia64, for the big/old/weird/64 b

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 20 décembre 2006 à 16:27 -0500, Joey Hess a écrit : > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > It's somewhat a shame not to have gnome-office, or at least gimp, > > inkscape and gnumeric, which are by many points superior to other > > alternatives. > > We do have gimp in the desktop task. I'm willi

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: > It's somewhat a shame not to have gnome-office, or at least gimp, > inkscape and gnumeric, which are by many points superior to other > alternatives. We do have gimp in the desktop task. I'm willing to consider gnumeric and inkscape. Actually I wouldn't really mind revisi

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 20 décembre 2006 à 16:03 -0500, Joey Hess a écrit : > > Not having "gnome" on a single CD is understandable given how much we've > > bloated this metapackage. > > Actually, we don't even include the gnome metapackage in the full > gnome-desktop task. gnome-office, gdm-themes and gnome-

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Are you talking of gnome-core or gnome-desktop-environment? gnome-core > is indeed really basic, but g-d-e already includes a complete desktop. gnome-desktop-environment is the sole key package in the gnome-desktop task, and nearly the only one from that task that current

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 20 décembre 2006 à 14:21 -0500, Joey Hess a écrit : > Gustavo Franco wrote: > > Unfortunately, even the GNOME desktop environment doesn't fit on the > > CD#1. > > True, but enough does fit to have a basically useable gnome desktop. Are you talking of gnome-core or gnome-desktop-enviro

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Gustavo Franco wrote: > Do you know what's broken in Xfce cd? Is it tasksel related? I hope not. Missing task file, it should be fixed in the next build. > Sounds great, could you give me a link with the log or check it in the > next build please? I checked the log, the current muti dvd doesn't

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/20/06, Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:04:28PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: (...) >>In case it's not obvious, the 3 arches picked for these discs are >>simply the most common end-user systems out there. There is scope for >>producing more multi-arch disc

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:04:28PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > >Let me thanks the debian-desktop, debian-installer and tasksel team >too. Without them, that stuff would be useless. Yup, of course. :-) >I would like to clarify that debian-desktop (alioth, svn, mailing >list) is now a unit compo

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/20/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gustavo Franco wrote: > Unfortunately, even the GNOME desktop environment doesn't fit on the > CD#1. True, but enough does fit to have a basically useable gnome desktop. Right, but we need to make it clear for the users and the first line of th

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Gustavo Franco wrote: > Unfortunately, even the GNOME desktop environment doesn't fit on the > CD#1. True, but enough does fit to have a basically useable gnome desktop. > You will need broadband connection to fetch some more packages > or use the full DVD#1 for your architecture. The bonus is th

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Philip Payne
I hope its not too inappropriate to post this message on this group, I am not a developer but I subscribed to this group a long time ago just to keep in touch with what was happening with Debian I just want to say thank you so much for this fantastic system : Etch/Testing It works so fine on my

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/20/06, Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...) Gnome vs. KDE vs. XFCE == The KDE and XFCE variants of CD#1 are now being produced to give more choice to people for initial installation. By default, CD#1 has always meant to be enough to install a fully-functioni