On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:00:19AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > The K16 images are being uploaded to debian-ports.org
Excellent, thanks a lot! > There are four CDs and two DVDs to come. I plan to upload the first CD > then the first DVD followed by the rest. The whole process is going to > take several days. The upload is running at 90kB/sec. > > The problem with the DVDs is the slow access to the optical drive by the > Hurd. A rough test indicated that Linux is about ten times faster. The > Packages files had to be placed at the start of the disc and read > failures were found when accessing packages deep inside the DVD, so the > DVD size has been limited to 3gB. If people still have read problems > would they contact me. Or better still, could some one fix the speed > problem. > > This was the toughest set I have had to produce. It has taken me about > 150 hours to get to this point. The job is far too big for one person. Oh my :-/ Would it make the life of whoever will do K17 much better if we only shipped a mini-ISO and maybe a first CD? Also, it should be possible to shift testing to the community maybe, by just mastering a testing CD and then ask for feedback, would that help (assuming you indeed spent quite some time testing/fixing the images) Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
