Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS
I'm just a user, but: * I disagree with dropping the first 4GB "DVD" install image, I think it's quite useful (although you might just name it "4GB" and drop the DVD naming). Users shouldn't need Internet to have a mostly functional system, and I cannot imagine they produce too much extra overhead to maintain compared to the netinst images for example. * I agree that non-install images (-*DVD-2, etc.) should be dropped. Users can use tools such as debmirror to easily create a local repository if they wish to. * I know this is somewhat controversial, but images with non-free firmware are also quite important in practice. I suggest to also produce a 16GB image with non-free firmware. * 16GB is a common size for cheap USB drives nowadays, so I think 4GB and 16GB would be good sizes for these offline images. Thank you. Às 23:48 de 18/07/20, Dan Ritter escreveu: Andrew Cater wrote: Separately, we also had a quick think about the numbers of iso images in general. A suggestion: For the future, we should produce physical media for the netinst.iso, the first DVD image in any set and one larger image to be written to a USB stick if wanted - and corresponding source for each size. All other .iso files to be distributed as .jigdo and .template files.In most instances, the netinst is enough, if you have network connectivity and bandwidth. The DVD is enough to install the basis of any of the graphical environments readily. This does not mean that you couldn't produce every other image - but very few people are on a desert island and need every piece of software Debian has produced on physical media. At this point in 2020, I think it would be reasonable to only produce netinst images and jigdo (and live, but that's a different-ish project). Drop the DVD images. All of my installs in the last six years have either been via a USB netinst image or PXE. New laptops and desktops are generally shipping without optical drives at all. My oldest non-toy hardware can boot via USB. -dsr-
Bug#917824: possible to have debian buster alpha iso's with non-free firmwares
Hi, buster DI alpha ISO's with non-free firmware are located here: https://get.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/buster_di_alpha4+nonfree/ (I made a mistake in my previous e-mail.) Às 18:55 de 30/12/18, shirish शिरीष escreveu: Package: debian-cd Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Would it be possible to have debian buster alpha iso's with non-free firmware. I did see https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/buster_di_alpha4/amd64/iso-cd/ But it arguably would be better if we also have the alpha CD's with non-free firmwar.e It doesn't make sense especially if there are no wireless drivers (broadcom etc.) and people have to hunt for them and the dependency hell. It would be especially useful if it was netinst.iso itself so we would have something minimum to connect with the mirrors otherwise you are stuck to trying an ethernet line, connector to connect with the web, try to download the driver packages and any dependency hell in case something is/was needed and is not there in the .iso. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IN:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages debian-cd depends on: ii apt 1.8.0~alpha2 pn bc ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii cpp 4:8.2.0-2 ii curl 7.62.0-1 ii dctrl-tools [grep-dctrl] 2.24-3 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.2 ii genisoimage 9:1.1.11-3+b2 pn libcompress-zlib-perl pn libdigest-md5-perl pn libdigest-sha-perl ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.2 ii lynx 2.8.9rel.1-2 ii make 4.2.1-1.2 ii perl 5.28.1-3 ii tofrodos 1.7.13+ds-4 ii wget 1.20-1 Versions of packages debian-cd recommends: ii dosfstools 4.1-2 pn hfsutils pn isolinux ii mtools 4.0.18-2.1 ii netpbm 2:10.0-15.3+b2 pn syslinux-common pn syslinux-utils debian-cd suggests no packages.
Re: Bug#917824: possible to have debian buster alpha iso's with non-free firmwares
Hi, buster DI alpha ISO's with non-free firmware are located here: https://get.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/buster_di_alpha4+nonfree/ Às 18:55 de 30/12/18, shirish शिरीष escreveu: Package: debian-cd Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Would it be possible to have debian buster alpha iso's with non-free firmware. I did see https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/buster_di_alpha4/amd64/iso-cd/ But it arguably would be better if we also have the alpha CD's with non-free firmwar.e It doesn't make sense especially if there are no wireless drivers (broadcom etc.) and people have to hunt for them and the dependency hell. It would be especially useful if it was netinst.iso itself so we would have something minimum to connect with the mirrors otherwise you are stuck to trying an ethernet line, connector to connect with the web, try to download the driver packages and any dependency hell in case something is/was needed and is not there in the .iso. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IN:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages debian-cd depends on: ii apt 1.8.0~alpha2 pn bc ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii cpp 4:8.2.0-2 ii curl 7.62.0-1 ii dctrl-tools [grep-dctrl] 2.24-3 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.2 ii genisoimage 9:1.1.11-3+b2 pn libcompress-zlib-perl pn libdigest-md5-perl pn libdigest-sha-perl ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.2 ii lynx 2.8.9rel.1-2 ii make 4.2.1-1.2 ii perl 5.28.1-3 ii tofrodos 1.7.13+ds-4 ii wget 1.20-1 Versions of packages debian-cd recommends: ii dosfstools 4.1-2 pn hfsutils pn isolinux ii mtools 4.0.18-2.1 ii netpbm 2:10.0-15.3+b2 pn syslinux-common pn syslinux-utils debian-cd suggests no packages.
Feature-request: USB flash drive sized images (8G, 16G, etc.)
Hello, I'd like to request the addition of USB flash drive sized images, since that's probably the most used storage medium for non-mass installations nowadays, for architectures that can boot via USB. The capacities would be 8G, 16G, 32G and 64G, the currently most common capacities, increasing in the future as necessary. (Decimal base, as that’s what storage vendors use.) There would only be one image for each of these capacities containing the most used packages up to the capacity, as it's typically cheaper to buy one USB flash drive with a certain capacity than two with half that capacity. Maybe an exception for the biggest capacity available. These images would be offered via jigdo, with the exception of the 8G image. I don’t know if these images should/can be hybrid – they should be what’s easier to maintain. I think these images would be significantly more useful than the BD and DLBD images, since that storage medium is relatively uncommonly used. Thank you, João Pirralha
Debian 2.2 and 1.3.1 ISO images
Hello, I noticed that some Debian 2.x ISO images have been made available at [1]. There were official-looking Debian 2.2r7 CD images available at [2], but the FTP site seems to have been deactivated. I happened to archive it some months ago [3], including the MD5SUMS, and I backed up these images to [4] and [5]. There are also Debian 1.3.1 CD images that look original available at [6]. Perhaps you could add these images to the archive? Thank you for your attention, João Pirralha [1] http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/older-contrib/ [2] http://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/debian-cd/2.2_r7/ [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20151212194124/http://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/debian-cd/2.2_r7/ [4] https://archive.org/details/debian_2.2r7_i386 [5] https://archive.org/details/debian_2.2r7_source [6] https://github.com/rdebath/debian-bo
