Re: Bug#775824: www.debian.org: [CD/faq] be consistent with the installation-guide

2015-01-20 Thread Philip Charles
software. Of course extra software can be downloaded if required. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business

Netinst test

2015-01-13 Thread Philip Charles
installation despite it being 64 bit and uefi, and it loaded. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business

Re: jessie uefi netinst build 2 test

2015-01-08 Thread Philip Charles
Push Button reset. plus ext4 and swap partitions. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business

Re: jessie uefi netinst build 2 test.

2015-01-08 Thread Philip Charles
-- Giorgio Pioda - Sysadmin SPSE-Tenero Cell +41 79 629 20 63 Tel +41 58 468 62 48 Fax +41 58 468 61 98 My bad. Rechecked and ok. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil

jessie uefi netinst build 2 test.

2015-01-07 Thread Philip Charles
. A usb stick was used in all cases. Will do a full round of installations when amd64 is fixed. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i

Kernel - modules mismatch

2015-01-05 Thread Philip Charles
Hi, I am getting installation failures because of a kernel/modules mismatch. Is it me or the mirror? I am in the final stages of producing a Jessie usb installation system. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax

Re: debian-cd in Git

2015-01-02 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 23:56 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 11:54:11AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: Hi, Would it be possible to upload to Git a version of debian-cd that can handle jessie? Hi Phil, How do you mean? We're building jessie stuff every day from git

debian-cd in Git

2015-01-02 Thread Philip Charles
Hi, Would it be possible to upload to Git a version of debian-cd that can handle jessie? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i

Re: Problem with dpkg-scanpackages

2014-12-26 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 2014-12-25 at 15:36 +1300, Philip Charles wrote: Solved. dpkg-scanpackages is not working properly. *** Note the different position of the checksums. Will the Packages file with the second format still work when producing CDs? If not, how can

Problem with dpkg-scanpackages

2014-12-24 Thread Philip Charles
with the second format still work when producing CDs? If not, how can the present format be switched back to the original format? Thanks. What a way to spend Christmas day. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875

Re: Summary from the d-i / debian-cd BoF at DC14

2014-09-09 Thread Philip Charles
to be. We could also be looking at images that fit usb sticks 4GB (done), 8GB 16GB. FYI the full i386 takes up ~52GB on a usb stick. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil

Re: Changes for d-i, tasksel and d-cd

2013-10-31 Thread Philip Charles
be smaller and more convienent. I need to compare Lubuntu and the first Debian CD installed sizes. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i

Re: Changes for d-i, tasksel and d-cd

2013-10-31 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 16:35:57 Philip Charles wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 23:39:31 Steve McIntyre wrote: ... Thoughts? I need to compare Lubuntu and the first Debian CD installed sizes. Replying to self. There is virtually no difference in the installed size from a 'classic' installaion

Re: Moving to git

2013-05-30 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 31 May 2013, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hey folks, I'm playing with importing the current svn repo into git right now, hoping to move across soon. If anybody has problems with that, speak now! Aaaagh, Something else to learn. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford

Re: make status and got error

2013-05-18 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 18 May 2013, Hideki Yamane wrote: Hi, debian-cd newbie question. I ran debian-cd as $ . CONF.sh $ make distclean $ make status Just checking, have you configured CONF.sh? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818

Re: Troubles with debian-cd

2013-05-13 Thread Philip Charles
for reporting. Glad to be of help. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ

Re: Troubles with debian-cd

2013-05-13 Thread Philip Charles
is supposed to report: xorriso version : 1.2.9 Version timestamp : 2013.05.13.123951 Thomas, Built wheezy images for i386 and amd64 and they booted of CDs and flash drives. ;) Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488

Re: Troubles with debian-cd

2013-05-12 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 11 May 2013, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Philip Charles wrote: With xorriso 1.2.2 the build stops at 650k. What happens if you use the same xorriso version as was used for the Debian release ? http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso-1.2.6.tar.gz Works nicely. Boots

Re: Troubles with debian-cd

2013-05-11 Thread Philip Charles
Sorry about the delay. The rest of my life caught up with me. On Thu, 09 May 2013, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 07:54:41PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: 1. When using xorriso 1.2.2 and the associated iso build configuration the resulting image would not boot from a flash

Re: Secure boot.

2013-05-09 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 10 May 2013, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 01:01:57PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: Hi folks, What is the story behing the release announcement saying that secure boot has not yet been implemented for Wheezy? I have been running a dual boot Wheezy

Troubles with debian-cd

2013-05-07 Thread Philip Charles
makefile and CONF.sh and I have noticed that ARCHES and COMPLETE are missing from CONF.sh A final point, the i386 DVD 1 has a peculiar structure. Mind you it works. It was great to see the iso's and jigdos up so quickly. This must have involved a lot of work. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a

Re: xorriso 1.2.4?

2013-05-05 Thread Philip Charles
. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org

Secure boot.

2013-05-05 Thread Philip Charles
Hi folks, What is the story behing the release announcement saying that secure boot has not yet been implemented for Wheezy? I have been running a dual boot Wheezy/Win 8 machine for 3 weeks. It will boot the official discs. Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson

xorriso 1.2.4?

2013-05-03 Thread Philip Charles
well. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: xorriso 1.2.4?

2013-05-03 Thread Philip Charles
a result review by Vladimir Serbinenko. For installation instructions see http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/README_xorriso_devel Have a nice day :) Thomas Thomas, Thanks. Compiled. Testing tomorrow. Good night, sleep well. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson

Installation flash drive problem.

2013-03-24 Thread Philip Charles
? If so do they have a solution? Should a bug report be filed? It is probably too late for a fix for Wheezy. However, with the wholesale price of 64GB sticks now being less than $10 it seems that flash drives will be the installation media of the future. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson

debian-cd branch or trunk?

2013-02-05 Thread Philip Charles
Hi, I am interested in Debian's efi/secure boot. What should I be looking at in debian-cd? trunk or the efi branch? I have a copy of the full svn archive and have taken a quick look at what is there. Thanks. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Philip Charles
download the netinstall image to minimize the number of bytes you need to download from the network to what you strictly need (yes, I did a few modem netinstalls...). Try downloading a DVD with a 56k dialup modem. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: who is filling /cdrom/firmware directory

2011-05-05 Thread Philip Charles
/unofficial/non-free I got the file-system from the CD. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Local Hook Definitions

2009-10-01 Thread Philip Charles
I can't get my head round Local Hook Definitions in debian-cd's CONF.sh, in particular RESERVED_BLOCKS_HOOK. If someone would give me a working example I would be grateful. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488

Re: Local Hook Definitions

2009-10-01 Thread Philip Charles
. Thanks. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-18 Thread Philip Charles
explains itself intuitively. It's command line typing which is building up the barrier :) Note the previous comments by some mirror masters, Jigdo loads their systems more than a normal download. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread Philip Charles
popular packages in popcon. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal.[EMAIL PROTECTED] - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-16 Thread Philip Charles
and get the rest of its packages from a network share then all's good. No comment. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal.[EMAIL PROTECTED

4.0r1 disc images

2007-08-20 Thread Philip Charles
I have just completed building 4.0r1 i386 cd images using debian-cd from svn and discovered a kernel/module mismatch. This meant that I could not see if apt-cdrom add was working properly. Is there an eta for the iso images and is apt-cdrom add working? This is an equiry, not a complaint.

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-17 Thread Philip Charles
, and poor/expensive internet connections. So I would say keep the complete sets, but give some guidance about the number of discs needed. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453

Disc Testing

2007-04-07 Thread Philip Charles
time). 3:45am on Easter Day. Going to bed. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal.[EMAIL PROTECTED] - business I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs

Re: Volunteers wanted to help with final testing of Etch CD/DVD images

2007-04-05 Thread Philip Charles
here. However, if the jigdos are available early enough I will be able to test i386, amd64. Anything in particular you want us to look at? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453

Re: Volunteers wanted to help with final testing of Etch CD/DVD images

2007-04-04 Thread Philip Charles
from ../tasks/task.list* in the latest svn version of debian-cd british british-desktop gujarati-desktop tamil These omissions lead in turn to gaps in the task-full-etch* lists. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488

Re: DVDs - priorities and pruning

2004-09-21 Thread Philip Charles
. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs DVDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz

Re: revising the first cd contents... (fwd)

2004-06-24 Thread Philip Charles
the official set. Four CDs is not unreasonable for a good standard installation considering that Mandrake uses three and Fedora four. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL

Re: non-US

2004-06-18 Thread Philip Charles
Torvalds Linus is quite right, West Islanders are rather like that. Phil, waiting for an Aussie bite. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL

Re: 700 MB media

2004-06-18 Thread Philip Charles
that those who would use Jigdo and who do not have a local Debian mirror would opt for a network installation. Given this I would suggest that we stick to a single CD set. Phil. (The other one) -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818

Re: non-US

2004-06-18 Thread Philip Charles
packages :-) Double sided, double layered for sarge +1 ;) Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd

Re: revising the first cd contents...

2004-06-18 Thread Philip Charles
, there are distros on a single CD. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs DVDs. See

Re: US - Non US difference.

2004-03-20 Thread Philip Charles
is the same as the US except that it includes the non-US software as well. 3. I have both the cds with me now. Is it legal to distribute both in India? India is not part of the US and the US legal restrictions would not apply to India. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin

Re: US - Non US difference.

2004-03-20 Thread Philip Charles
is the same as the US except that it includes the non-US software as well. 3. I have both the cds with me now. Is it legal to distribute both in India? India is not part of the US and the US legal restrictions would not apply to India. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin

debian-cd 2217

2004-03-04 Thread Philip Charles
the the disc set. I could pick this up if you like. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd

debian-cd 2217

2004-03-04 Thread Philip Charles
the the disc set. I could pick this up if you like. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd

Re: Progeny picax: Replacement for debian-cd

2004-01-15 Thread Philip Charles
feedback (on the list and to you). Let's see what comes out ! My main worry is that it might too polished to easily hack. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Progeny picax: Replacement for debian-cd

2004-01-15 Thread Philip Charles
feedback (on the list and to you). Let's see what comes out ! My main worry is that it might too polished to easily hack. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: looking for hurd k-4

2003-09-09 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, jason andrade wrote: i've got J2 ones.. so a bit more recent than that but not the latest. i used to have up two date ones once.. any chance of mailing me iso images philip ? :) Great. Address please. Phil -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin

Re: looking for hurd k-4

2003-09-09 Thread Philip Charles
, but they have not arived. If someone has a set of images, or knows where a set is, would they contact Attila Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] so they can be uploaded. ftp.fsn.hu is the site that the GNU images were originally distributed from. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford

Re: looking for hurd k-4

2003-09-09 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, jason andrade wrote: i've got J2 ones.. so a bit more recent than that but not the latest. i used to have up two date ones once.. any chance of mailing me iso images philip ? :) Great. Address please. Phil -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford

Re: SID on CD?

2003-05-13 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Jan Kesten wrote: If not: is there any spec describing the structure of Debian-CDs? I mean, so that they can be used via apt and the installer. Take a look at debian-cd in cvs.debian.org/debian-cd Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New

Re[2]: Up-to-date images of Sarge and Sid are where?

2003-05-13 Thread Philip Charles
what's happening. COMPLETE=1 in build.sh Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs. See

Re: where are the hurd k2 jigdos ??

2003-03-21 Thread Philip Charles
changes considerable every day, after all it is sid. We are working on this. In the meantime you will have to use the CD images. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL

Re: where are the hurd k2 jigdos ??

2003-03-21 Thread Philip Charles
changes considerable every day, after all it is sid. We are working on this. In the meantime you will have to use the CD images. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-06 Thread Philip Charles
have done very well. I will switch off the TRANS-TABLE option next build. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-06 Thread Philip Charles
have done very well. I will switch off the TRANS-TABLE option next build. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-04 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Patrick Strasser wrote: Philip Charles, the creator of the Debian/Hurd CDs, is located in New Zealand, and has only low bandwith capacity. He manages to fetch all necessary packages, but uploading 5 CDs takes much to long on his connection. So he gives the images

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-04 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Patrick Strasser wrote: Philip Charles, the creator of the Debian/Hurd CDs, is located in New Zealand, and has only low bandwith capacity. He manages to fetch all necessary packages, but uploading 5 CDs takes much to long on his connection. So he gives the images

Re: Why didn't????

2002-08-03 Thread Philip Charles
the upload was completed when I was in bed and now I have just got home again. Time zones. It is my responsibility. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred

Re: /CD/vendors: What to do about DVD vendors

2002-07-07 Thread Philip Charles
DVD I would roll out would be an i386 vendor. The second a GNU/Hurd vendor. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: About harware detection and configuration tools in 1st CD

2002-06-14 Thread Philip Charles
] -- Say no to software patents! http://petition.eurolinux.org/ |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd.http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND -- Philip Charles; 39a

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Philip Charles
system. We need to do the best we can within these limitations. The alternative is to tell people that they need the first two CDs minimum. woody+1 for the solution? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875

Re: CD release announcement

2002-05-30 Thread Philip Charles
to produce starting images for use with rsync. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2001, Philip Charles wrote: The release. We were told in no uncertain terms that we were not to mess with task system. More than being a part of, x-window-system is the *only* package in the basic-desktop task. I think

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Philip Charles
. The freeze? -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-30 Thread Philip Charles
that people use the first two CDs. This is the case with Red Hat, not that this is an example I would like to follow long term. Woody+1 Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420

Re: First try on Hurd-H4-CD1 jigdo files

2002-05-30 Thread Philip Charles
might be the easiest way to go. This would probably give us about 80% complete images which could be rsync'ed. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred

Re: First try on Hurd-H4-CD1 jigdo files

2002-05-29 Thread Philip Charles
look for packages. Not for H4. For future images, yes. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU

Re: First try on Hurd-H4-CD1 jigdo files

2002-05-29 Thread Philip Charles
a loop mounted iso image to speed things up. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs

Re: What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-29 Thread Philip Charles
On 29 May 2002, Philip Hands wrote: Does anyone have other candidates for a move, or reasons not to move any of the packages mentioned above? Good luck. Don't $#@! tasks. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488

Re: First try on Hurd-H4-CD1 jigdo files

2002-05-28 Thread Philip Charles
to any other Debian set. However, they may last a few months. If anyone could come up with a suitable scheme, we would love it. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL

Re: First try on Hurd-H4-CD1 jigdo files

2002-05-28 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 01:14:23AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: The extra H4 files came from alpha.gnu.org/../debian-libio, future sets will be using alpha.gnu.org/../debian. This illustrates the problem of producing kits like jigdo for the Hurd

What kernel stuff on CD1? Was Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-24 Thread Philip Charles
is that normally you only want to install one of them, so there is a lot of wasted space in CD #1. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Still no TeX in CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Philip Charles
configuration was to move all of i18n to the first CD, but this meant that more tasks were on the second CD. Testing the various combinations is complex and time consuming, so please do not make suggestions unless the package ordering has been thoroughly tested. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a

Re: i18n in Woody CD#1

2002-05-23 Thread Philip Charles
to do this. But the first CD works better as it is. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd

Re: cvs commit to debian-cd/tasks by hertzog

2002-05-06 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Exactly, it doesn't matter on which CD kernel 2.4.16 ends ... it could as well be completely removed since we have 2.4.18. Quite agree. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax

Re: cvs commit to debian-cd/tasks by philipc

2002-05-05 Thread Philip Charles
through a morass of unintelligible documentation, to no effect. I _HATE_ cvs. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: cvs commit to debian-cd/tasks by hertzog

2002-05-05 Thread Philip Charles
is needed to get the packages onto the second CD, otherwise they end up on a much later CD. But on the other hand, this may not matter. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL

Re: About 1st debian CD

2002-05-04 Thread Philip Charles
. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz

Re: About 1st debian CD

2002-05-03 Thread Philip Charles
. Thanks for the tip about the kernel images, this could mean that all of games, junior and science will end up on the first CD. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Optimising Debian-CD

2002-04-09 Thread Philip Charles
archive's Packages files. Same proviso applies. My home made packages have md5sums generated by the standard build scripts. I can see no problems, provided make mirrorcheck is used. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax

Re: Test of el-torito and isolinux multiboot for CD

2002-04-08 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Raphael Hertzog wrote: First method : multiboot with el-torito --- The first hurd-H3 CD image was built el-torito multiboot. The questions are, who posts to the hurd list and where do the reply to? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a

Re: YACS again

2002-03-29 Thread Philip Charles
. I find that $ make list COMPLETE=1 SIZELIMIT1=56000 SIZELIMIT=64800 \ SRCSIZELIMIT=66500 keeps everthing under control and the CDs reasonably close to the max size. Version 2.2.14 Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: Needs feedback and testing

2002-03-29 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I have had no news since I committed this... the changes were fairly important, so if you could try the latest debian-cd in CVS, that would be cool. I built a nice set of woody i386 file trees with 2.2.14 earlier today. Phil. -- Philip

Re: Woody disks (fwd)

2002-03-27 Thread Philip Charles
, then when it comes to selecting modules there are borders but using the wrong character set. 2) When I get to the end of the installation the system prompts me to remove the bootable media, but it hasn't unmounted the CD and therefore I can't eject it. * -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson

Re: debian-cd single cd creation: Tasksel question

2002-03-21 Thread Philip Charles
for one would find it very useful. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs. See http

Re: Those task packages

2002-03-20 Thread Philip Charles
to play with debian-cd? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs. See http

Re: Those task packages

2002-03-18 Thread Philip Charles
, c-dev (I don't know why, will take a look) chinese-s chinese-t german japanese korean polish russian spanish tex (gv, so we are stuck) The first CD is 622 MB (with gnuplot). This is the file-tree, not the image itself so does not include ~11 MB of bootdisks. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a

The first woody CD

2002-03-18 Thread Philip Charles
behave itself as much as possible. None the less it is still an attractive first CD. Must try burning and installing this sometime soon. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL

Those task packages

2002-03-17 Thread Philip Charles
or additional CDs. Objections, comments? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs. See

Re: Those task packages

2002-03-17 Thread Philip Charles
so that each package is put on the CDs in the prescribed order. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU

Re: Those task packages

2002-03-17 Thread Philip Charles
-woody. These would not have to be maintained as they would be fully functional as long as the particular task remained in existence regardless of changes within that task. If people really wanted to be sophisticated then they could be designed not to be installed. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a

Re: Those task packages

2002-03-17 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:16:43PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: IMHO we need to come up with something for woody. No, we don't. Make the stuff that you can work, and document the stuff that doesn't work well. The following tasks will only

Re: debian-cd 2.2.13 and woody.

2002-03-16 Thread Philip Charles
this is a rather violent option. Should list2cds be hacked to include a NOSUGGESTS option? Anyway I will try a YAB (yet another build) with the NORECOMMEDS enabled. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile

Re: debian-cd 2.2.13 and woody.

2002-03-16 Thread Philip Charles
for details.) At the moment I am finding the amount of space each task takes on a CD. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL

Re: debian-cd 2.2.13 and woody.

2002-03-16 Thread Philip Charles
On 16 Mar 2002, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Philip Charles] If I get time I will work out how much space the packages for each task takes. I've made such script already. It is not perfect, but it give a number close to the real value. It currently calculates the disk space used when

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