Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-05-07 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Bernd Hentig wrote: Well, nowadays 700 MB CD-R are even cheaper than 650 MB, so I really don't mind. Is there any *real* reason why the 650 MB limit is still kept ? I mean, 700 MB CD-R can be read by all modern CDROM drives except 1x/2x proprietary drives from about

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-05-07 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On 26 Apr 2001, Mark Eichin wrote: I'd agree with keeping the standard limit (though if the automation eventually got to the point where you could just feed it a media size paramater, that would rock for building zip, jaz, orb, 700M-cd, flash-card, or other install images. There are a

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-05-07 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 7 May 2001, J.A. Bezemer wrote: Few people are aware that many of our old machines have ended up in developing countries, esp. through the many partnerships that schools/ universities have with similar institutions there. From what I've heard, Linux is quite popular there, because it

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-05-07 Thread Wookey
On Mon 07 May, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Philip Charles am Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:26:07PM +: I have just used up the last of a batch of 700 MB discs and I will not be using them again. Uhm - how do you measure the quality of a CDR? I'm also a small vendor, and use cheap (?

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-05-07 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Philip Charles am Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:26:07PM +: I have just used up the last of a batch of 700 MB discs and I will not be using them again. Uhm - how do you measure the quality of a CDR? I'm also a small vendor, and use

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-04-27 Thread Stefano
Hi it seems that the debian 2.2rev3 is coming out now. I am looking with rsync -avH rsync://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd I am copyng the images in my mirror. rsync -avH rsync://aurolinux.mit.edu/ Stefano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-04-26 Thread Philip Hands
Bernd Hentig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Hi, You'll be pleased to hear that I gave open.hands.com (a.k.a cdimage.debian.org) a brain transplant today, so instead of being an Athlon on a VIA chipset motherboard, it's now a PIII 750, on an Intel chipset, with 512MB of new RAM

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-04-26 Thread Philip Hands
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do people think about this? This matches the (slightly broken) state of the main archive at present, so either I kludge debian-cd to exclude bulkmail, or we wait (and wait?) for the archive to be fixed.

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-04-26 Thread bbennet
On 26 Apr 2001, Philip Hands wrote: I've no idea, but I'd guess that there might be a problem pressing larger CDs in bulk --- would someone that actually presses CDs in bulk care to enlighten us? As it happens, we can fit the CDs onto 3x650 per architecture at present, so we might as well,

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-04-26 Thread Mark Eichin
www.compgeeks.com; look under systems in the sidebar... http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=GEN603 $284, though it has a winmodem (which I pulled, and installed a $9 asound ethernet card from elsewhere on compgeeks) (I have no connection with compgeeks - I've just bought a half dozen

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-04-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Philip Charles am Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:51:40PM +: Burn the DVDs from the file system using a mkhybrid | cdrecord pipe? Uhm, why not first write it to disk? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage:

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-04-26 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Philip Charles am Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:51:40PM +: Burn the DVDs from the file system using a mkhybrid | cdrecord pipe? Uhm, why not first write it to disk? Now that there does not seem to be a file size limit, it saves HDD

Re: 2.2r3 test images

2001-04-26 Thread Mark Eichin
I'd agree with keeping the standard limit (though if the automation eventually got to the point where you could just feed it a media size paramater, that would rock for building zip, jaz, orb, 700M-cd, flash-card, or other install images. But it would *merely* be cool - I don't think there's