On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Bernd Hentig wrote: > Date: 07 Mar 2003 12:11:08 +0100 > From: Bernd Hentig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: LINUXMAN69 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] > Subject: Re: 3.0r1 DVD ISO jigdo: Myth or Reality? > Resent-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 05:40:25 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [email protected] > > Am Mon, 2003-03-03 um 15.22 schrieb Richard Atterer: > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 02:39:33PM +0100, LINUXMAN69 wrote: > > > Debian 3.0r1 CD images were released 2 months ago. Can we expect to have > > > official 3.0r1 DVD isos in the near future (or not) ? Is some work in > > > progress or we must assume that Debian DVD ISO is an abandoned task? A > > > status report would be right > > > > I'm not too sure. Steve said at one point that he was going to generate DVD > > images, but first there were hardware problems, and now (presumably) he > > can't find the spare time. > > > Well, we ran into several problems when generating the DVD images with > debian-cd on a Debian 3.0r0 server. We used to generate Debian CDs on > Red Hat Linux, the last version we did was 2.2r5 I think. > But with debian-cd for Woody, we could not get some of the required > packages (apt-get) to work on Red Hat 7.3, so we installed a Debian 3.0 > server for this task, assuming that it would be more easy to do on a > "native" system. > > Maybe this was a wrong assumption since our installation of Debian 3.0 > does not handle files > 2 Gigabyte. After running debian-cd (the most > recent version from CVS) for some hours, the following messages > appeared: > > 50.17% done, estimate finish Fri Mar 7 10:44:53 2003 > /usr/bin/mkisofs: File too large. cannot fwrite 32768*1 > > The partition is 94% free: > /dev/hda7 39404620 2174280 35228644 6% /priv > > So maybe this is the reason why there are no Debian 3.0r1 DVD images > available from anyone yet, unless we did something wrong during the > installation ;-) > However, I think we got apt-get to run on Red Hat 7.3 meanwhile and will > try to generate the DVD images on this system tonight. Hopefully this > will not cause other problems. > > We intended to switch one of our servers from Red Hat to Debian GNU > Linux, but I think this cannot be done since we have a lot of files that > are bigger than 2 GB on our harddisks (I cannot remember we ever had > 64-bit file size problems with Red Hat Linux). Maybe we have to wait for > SID final ? Will this be Debian 4.0 or 3.1 ? > > Best Regards > Bernd Hentig > > -- > Mit freundlichem Gru� > Bernd Hentig > --- > ixsoft Softwareentwicklung und -vertrieb Bernd Hentig > * Ihr Spezialist f�r Linux und BSD * > Unter den Buchen 22E, D-16244 Altenhof, Germany > Voice ++49 333 63 46 100 Fax ++49 333 63 46 109 > eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Mike Adler
