On Wednesday 19 December 2007 13:01, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:05:03PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > Would it make the life of whoever will do K17 much better if we only > > shipped a mini-ISO and maybe a first CD? > > Maybe we could figure out how to use debian-cd to produce > non-installing ISOs/DVDs of the rest of the archive (or are you using > that already, Philip?). This would assume debian-ports.org isn't very > important for day-to-day packages, which I think is a reasonable > assumption. > > Not sure whether this would have a lot of benefit, but might be worth a > try.
K16 was a bad experience because of one off problems. Usually most of the time is spent on the debian-cd aspect of the iso's. Making the disc bootable should be no problem, particulary if Calicut produces the tarball. I had two problems. The current debian-cd/etch combination is too clever for the Hurd; great for etch and larry though. The solution was to use an earlier version of debian-cd running on woody. Debian-cd does sort out dependencies nicely and enables packages to be placed on the discs in a customised order (to a degree). The slow optical drives. Standard debian-cd DVD iso's will not work and a work-round had to be found. If the full DVD could have been used all the arch: hurd packages could have been included on it. The proper solution here is to speed up the disc access. While there is <apt-cdrom add> it does not work on the Hurd, so larger discs are better for users. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818 Fax +64 3 488 2875 Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
