Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Steve Dunham wrote:
> >> I honestly don't know myself. Anybody? > > > >You can't build silo on i386. There is a program somewhere called > >"intelsilo", but it's not in debian, and it might need tweaking to > >work. Also, you must use the "second.b" file from the silo in > >incoming, or the CD will fail to boot on a large subset of machines. > Hmmm. Any idea where to look? I had a quick look using Altavista, and it > just bounced me to the redhat sparc mailing list archives, which didn't > appear to be of much use. There is a binary on Jakub's site (ultra.linux.cz). I could try making one from the latest version of silo... > >I'm now set up to generate CD Images. I mirrored master today, and > >generated a set of CD images. The file sizes are: > >slink1.raw 309188608 > >slink2.raw 676298752 > >slink5.raw 391374848 > >I'm going to tweak the slink1.useful list to push the bulk of the main > >packages onto the first CD. (I'm not sure why so few packages are > >going onto the first CD...) > I'm curious, too - can you send me your lists? Turns out that /archive/tmp/slink1.needed is empty. After looking at the slink_cd script, I realized that the file "master" was missing... Also, I was having some weird problems because I was setting the TMPDIR environment variable. Apparently this causes "dpkg-deb" to break. (This could be a libc6_2.1 issue.) I changed the variable name to TDIR in my copy of slink_cd. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
