Re: Multiboot testing please ...

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 06, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Chris Lawrence is willing to do tests with isolinux, please continue as we may want to try that if we have troubles with the actual multiboot stuff. Feel free to prepare a patch too. :) It may also have more interesting features (no size limit on the boot

Re: 2.2_r6 jigdo files cdimage.d.o

2002-04-07 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:37:27PM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: Hmm.. This might be a very good idea if someone would write the jigdo-mirror script (or point me towards it if it is already done). It doesn't exist yet, but I'm willing to write it (later this week). Basically, what I'm

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-07 Thread Christian Leber
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:24:53AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote: The slackware installer already uses isolinux, which lets then pack multiple kernels onto a single CD Here is what they do: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/isolinux/ The same with gentoo,

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:53:56AM +0200, Christian Leber écrivait: The same with gentoo, they have even managed to fit a 2.4 kernel on their first and only CD. But I have at least one Computer (i386, from end of 1996) where isolinux fails. What kind of failure ? It doesn't boot at all ? It

Re: 2.2r5 download with jigdo failed

2002-04-07 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:25:11AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: *However*, it is possible that the old 2.2r5 CD images have already been deleted from the CD mirrors, so there might be nothing for you to rsync against. In that case I'm afraid you will have to retry with the 2.2r6 jigdo files.

Re: 2.2_r6 jigdo files cdimage.d.o

2002-04-07 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:37:27PM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: Hmm.. This might be a very good idea if someone would write the jigdo-mirror script (or point me towards it if it is already done). It doesn't exist yet, but I'm willing to write

Re: Release notes

2002-04-07 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 11:51, Raphael Hertzog wrote: You also speak of a DVD distribution, while it may be possible, I've never heard of someone doing it officially ... better leave it out until we actually provide some DVD images ? John Winters of linuxemporium.co.uk was asking me about this

Re: Release notes

2002-04-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:13:38PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 11:51, Raphael Hertzog wrote: You also speak of a DVD distribution, while it may be possible, I've never heard of someone doing it officially ... better leave it out until we actually provide some DVD images ?

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-07 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Christian Leber [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit: P.S. I'm not a developer or know much about kernels, but i can not imagine that 2.4 is less stable then 2.2. But what is with Debian 3.0r6? How many people will be able to install with kernel 2.2 (because of there new boards, USB

RE: Re: 2.2r5 download with jigdo failed

2002-04-07 Thread idd02z46
Hi again Richard et al, Regarding my previous post, it seems I may be doing something wrong here.. I run jigdo (the windows runme.bat though). Since the jigdo menu file hasn't been updated yet, I specify the url of the potato 2.2r6 jigdo file:

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-07 Thread Christian Leber
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:01:13PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: The same with gentoo, they have even managed to fit a 2.4 kernel on their first and only CD. But I have at least one Computer (i386, from end of 1996) where isolinux fails. would it be possible to test MEMDISK on that

Re: Building DVD images

2002-04-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:08:15AM +0100, 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

cvs commit to debian-cd by 93sam

2002-04-07 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-cd who:93sam time: Sun Apr 7 09:26:59 PDT 2002 Log Message: Added support for DVD-sized images. Specify default image sizes in CONF.sh as DEFBINSIZE and DEFSRCSIZE build.sh and build_all.sh now use these settings to calculate the packages and source

cvs commit to debian-cd/debian by 93sam

2002-04-07 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-cd/debian who:93sam time: Sun Apr 7 09:26:59 PDT 2002 Log Message: Added support for DVD-sized images. Specify default image sizes in CONF.sh as DEFBINSIZE and DEFSRCSIZE build.sh and build_all.sh now use these settings to calculate the packages and

Re: Multiboot testing please ...

2002-04-07 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://relativity.phy.olemiss.edu/~cnlawren/woody-i386-1.raw Could you give us a MD5SUM for it? I am pulling it from Mattias and thought about mentioning it in our national Usenet linux group. -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiboot testing please ...

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 07, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://relativity.phy.olemiss.edu/~cnlawren/woody-i386-1.raw Could you give us a MD5SUM for it? I am pulling it from Mattias and thought about mentioning it in our national Usenet linux group. quantex ~$ md5sum

Re: Multiboot testing please ...

2002-04-07 Thread Jim Westveer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 On Sunday 07 April 2002 01:37, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Apr 07, Chris Lawrence wrote: Anyway, I burned a CD and tested it, and it seems to work OK. I'll post a URL for downloading it for testing as soon as it gets done rsyncing. Note that

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isolinux test image, debian-cd changes available

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
(CC'd to debian-boot since the discussion there seems to be lingering on this topic too.) Per discussion on debian-cd, I have prepared a test ISO and changes to debian-cd to allow the use of ISOLINUX in the boot sector. The changes to debian-cd are at:

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 20:14, Chris Lawrence wrote: Yes, it is ISOLINUX-based, not MULTIBOOT. It just got attached to this thread because that's where Raphael mentioned that I was going to work on it. Just tried this -- If one tries an install of the bf24 kernel, when you get to the Configure

Re: Multiboot testing please ...

2002-04-07 Thread Jim Westveer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 On Sunday 07 April 2002 11:45, Jim Westveer wrote: On Sunday 07 April 2002 01:37, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Apr 07, Chris Lawrence wrote: Anyway, I burned a CD and tested it, and it seems to work OK. I'll post a URL for downloading it for

Re: Re: 2.2r5 download with jigdo failed

2002-04-07 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:58:32PM +, idd02z46 wrote: jigdo-file make-image: Invalid template data - corrupted file? jigdo-file failed with code 3 - aborting. Oh, I forgot to mention that, sorry... jigdo-lite2win is outdated, the template file format has changed. It might be possible for

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Jim Westveer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 On Sunday 07 April 2002 14:29, Philip Hands wrote: On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 20:14, Chris Lawrence wrote: Yes, it is ISOLINUX-based, not MULTIBOOT. It just got attached to this thread because that's where Raphael mentioned that I was going to work

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:54:15PM -0500, Chris Lawrence écrivait: Hmm. I see the problem. There's a separate root.bin for each flavor, and the code isn't accounting for that. Are you going to fix it also for the boot.bat that is generated by debian-cd in tools/boot/woody/boot-i386 ?

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 08, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:29:31PM +0100, Philip Hands écrivait: Just tried this -- If one tries an install of the bf24 kernel, when you get to the Configure Device Driver Modules, it's obviously not taking account of the kernel it was booted with, but is

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Philip Hands
I just tried a few other test installs. vanilla works (well it gets past the devices problem), all others, including the default idepci are broken, because the are looking to see, for example: /target/lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci after the drvers install Cheers, Phil. -- Say no to software

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 08, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:54:15PM -0500, Chris Lawrence écrivait: Hmm. I see the problem. There's a separate root.bin for each flavor, and the code isn't accounting for that. Are you going to fix it also for the boot.bat that is generated by debian-cd

Re: ISOLINUX testing (was Re: Multiboot testing please ...)

2002-04-07 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Apr 08, Philip Hands wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 00:05, Chris Lawrence wrote: I tracked down the problem... each flavor uses its own root.bin. After some tweaking, I fixed the build process and updates are now online (see my lagged mail to the list). Hm, doesn't fix it for the

Re: isolinux test image, debian-cd changes available

2002-04-07 Thread Jim Westveer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 On Sunday 07 April 2002 17:46, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Apr 08, Eduard Bloch wrote: - BUG! You use root.bin for all images, but the root images are different. Currently, only vanilla is installable with your disk. Yeah. This is now fixed;