Hi all, On Saturday, 23 Jul 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Martin-Eric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Greetings, > > > > Upon seeing the excellent work done for the LinuxTag 2005 DVD, > > featuring Sarge CD #1 for amd64/i386/powerpc in a single DVD, I got > > the idea that a perhaps even more desirable product would be a smaller > > 650mb CD based on the Netinst image for as many architectures as can > > be made to cohabit on the same installation media. would be a nice idea.
> > This CD would be based upon the Sarge release, but with a more recent > > d-i > > that includes support for Rescue CD operation. > > > > Such a CD would definitely be a tremendous hit as a handout at trade > > shows and installfests, and for administrators as a > > one-size-fits-nearly-all Debian installation and rescue media. > > > > According to Joerg Jaspert, the LinuxTag 2005 DVD was made using the > > standard debian-cd tool, but with a custom CD building template to > > succeed in fitting those 3 architectures into the same ISO image. > > > > My questions are: > > > > 1) What other architectures could be made to co-exist on the same media? Joerg already tried to combine i386/ppc/amd64/hppa and i386/ppc/amd64/sparc. the later one always made the medium unbootable. > > 2) Would anyone be interested in helping to produce such a multiarch > > CD based on the Sarge Netinstall images? The idea is to make a > > debian-cd template, then submit it as a patch to the debian-cd package. > > > > Comments and volunteers to put together such a project are welcome. > > > > Best Regards, > > The LT 2005 DVD was made by building 3 images of ~2Gb size (one per > arch) and then merging them back into one image in a second > round. That is very ugly for one thing and the size needs to be > experimented with a lot to make it fit. > > There are plans and ideas for debian-cd being thought through to make > debian-cd itself more flexible and capable of doing multiarch but that > will be a longer process and help is certainly welcome. > > > One thing everyone can help out now already, without waiting for the > full debian-cd redesign to start, is testing what architectures can > coexist on the same image. I386 and amd64 both use the same isolinux > so they can always go together. We know isolinux and yaboot can > coexist. Beyond that not much is documented I think. > > > So if you have two (or more) architectures around read the > tools/boot/ scripts for those archs and try merging two D-I CDs > (mini.iso is enough) together manually. If you know the internas of > the boot process well enough to already know what archs can share a CD > thats even better. Would be a nice task, as we would know then, which Arches are combinable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
