Re: Building DVD images

2002-03-01 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, I also had to hack my list2cds-cram code to use kilobytes [...] I think instead of depending on python, or any other big, and complicated stuff it is enough to use bc for this task. It is small and can work with bigger numbers too :)

Re: download softwares

2002-03-01 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, I can't believe the debian team promotes proprietary instead of free software ! For me debian was the distribution which was the most pro-free software. Just look at the one core component of the Debian GNU/Linux. The kernel. It is developed in a system which is a proprietary stuff. :)

Re: Building DVD images

2002-03-01 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Attila Nagy wrote: Hello, I also had to hack my list2cds-cram code to use kilobytes [...] I think instead of depending on python, or any other big, and complicated stuff it is enough to use bc for this task. It is small and can work with bigger numbers too :) I have

Re: What is the status of debian-cd?

2002-03-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:53:17PM +, Wookey écrivait: Hello people, Hi, Some while back now debian-cd got in a bit of a state such that you couldn't use the same version to produce potato and woody CDs. Does the current (CVS) version only produce woody CDs or can it still/now do potato

Re: download softwares

2002-03-01 Thread PSZTOR Gyrgy
Hi, Attila Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] rta 2002-03-01 10:16-kor: I can't believe the debian team promotes proprietary instead of free software ! For me debian was the distribution which was the most pro-free software. Just look at the one core component of the Debian GNU/Linux. The kernel. It

Re: What is the status of debian-cd?

2002-03-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:53:17PM +, Wookey écrivait: Hello people, Hi, Some while back now debian-cd got in a bit of a state such that you couldn't use the same version to produce potato and woody CDs. Does the current (CVS) version only produce woody CDs or can it still/now do potato

Re: Bug#123948: can someone test the patch?

2002-03-01 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 11:56, Eduard Bloch wrote: Maybe I got the wrong impression, but why do we do all this detection and _force_ the user to use that Cd? The idea was to reduce the number of questions that the user gets asked. Debian's installer has long been notorious for forcing you to

Re: Bug#123948: can someone test the patch?

2002-03-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Phil Blundell wrote on Fri Mar 01, 2002 um 12:23:12PM: How about a compromise. If an attractive-looking CD is detected in the drive, pop up a single dialogue box at the beginning along the lines of I see you have a Debian CD-ROM. Do you want to use this as the source

Re: Bug#123948: can someone test the patch?

2002-03-01 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 13:09, Eduard Bloch wrote: A good compromise. I suggest two kinds of flags on the CD-ROM: .disk/kernel_installable .disk/base_installable The first marks the disk containing kernel and modules, the second the one with the basedebs. Sounds fine to me. p. -- To

Re: download softwares

2002-03-01 Thread Richard Atterer
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:41:21AM +0100, Bernard Massot wrote: I was very astonished when I viewed this page : http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ You advise the reader to use wget if he is a unix user or getright if he is a windoze user. But wget *does* run under windoze et getright is a

Re: Bug#123948: can someone test the patch?

2002-03-01 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Eduard Bloch wrote: Phil Blundell wrote on Fri Mar 01, 2002 um 12:23:12PM: A good compromise. I suggest two kinds of flags on the CD-ROM: .disk/kernel_installable .disk/base_installable The first marks the disk containing kernel and modules, the second the one

Re: download softwares

2002-03-01 Thread Robb Kidd
Richard Atterer wrote: If anybody knows about a Free *GUI* download program under Windows which supports HTTP ranges, please tell me and I'll gladly remove the GetRight reference. A quick poke around TUCOWS came up with: Fresh Download v3.10 (Freeware) - Home:

Re: download softwares

2002-03-01 Thread Seth Mos
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:41:21AM +0100, Bernard Massot wrote: I was very astonished when I viewed this page : http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ You advise the reader to use wget if he is a unix user or getright if he is a windoze user. But

Re: Bug#123948: can someone test the patch?

2002-03-01 Thread Kyle Waters
Philip Charles wrote: On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Eduard Bloch wrote: Phil Blundell wrote on Fri Mar 01, 2002 um 12:23:12PM: A good compromise. I suggest two kinds of flags on the CD-ROM: .disk/kernel_installable .disk/base_installable The first marks the disk containing kernel and modules, the

Re: Bug#123948: can someone test the patch?

2002-03-01 Thread David Kimdon
One things that came up in the BTS is that the debian-cd package currently doesn't need to manipulate the *.bin images that boot-floppies makes for it. If I understand correctly what we are discussing here the debian-cd package will need to 'mount -o loop' during the build to add those files.

debian woody iso

2002-03-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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