Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-18 Thread Carr, Chris
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 2) Problem with these small USB images and the way they are written is that anything already on the USB stick gets deleted and that - given that most USB sticks nowadays are significantly larger in size - makes most of the stick completely unusable.

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi otavio, At 15 Nov 08 07:35:39 GMT, Otavio Salvador wrote: Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): After this patch is applied, 'make build_netboot' will build boot.img.gz in dest/netboot/ directory

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 17 November 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: I'm not in the position to decide about the inclusion of that into the Installation Guide but I believe it would be a problem due the translation. I think we should keep two patches in a queue to be commited as soon as we open svn to squeeze

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-17 Thread Kenshi Muto
At Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:38:20 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After seeing installer guide, I think only a few changes are needed. Please see also attached patch against installation-guide r56652. I'm not in the position to decide about the inclusion of

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-17 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 13:17 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 17 November 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: I'm not in the position to decide about the inclusion of that into the Installation Guide but I believe it would be a problem due the translation. I think we should keep two patches in a

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-15 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 05:35 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): After this patch is applied, 'make build_netboot' will build boot.img.gz in dest/netboot/ directory for i386 and amd64 with both text and gtk

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-15 Thread Kenshi Muto
Hi, At Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:55:59 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 05:35 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This boot.img.gz is more convenience than hd-media image for usual installation

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-15 Thread Kenshi Muto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi otavio, At 15 Nov 08 07:35:39 GMT, Otavio Salvador wrote: Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): After this patch is applied, 'make build_netboot' will build boot.img.gz in dest/netboot/

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-14 Thread Kenshi Muto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Version: 20081029 Tags: patch Hi, I made a patch to produce bootable netboot image for (mainly) USB stick. After this patch is applied, 'make build_netboot' will build boot.img.gz in dest/netboot/

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): After this patch is applied, 'make build_netboot' will build boot.img.gz in dest/netboot/ directory for i386 and amd64 with both text and gtk installers. Because I didn't know well about other architectures, my patch didn't touch them. This