Re: powerpc cd images

2000-06-14 Thread Brad Midgley
> so I'm not sure it truely matters. What is hfsutils used for, I thought > mkhybrid takes care of these things? hfsutils is used to set an attribute that mkhybrid doesn't cover: blessing the boot file. Brad Turbolinux Frontier Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.turbolinux.com/~brad/ --

Re: Test Cycle 2 Images available from 129.13.126.5::

2000-06-14 Thread Nick Holgate
> > > The other arches copy the files so I just followed their example. However > > > > IIRC a PC running an M$ O/S is not able to understand symlinks which would > > > > make it difficult to for VME users to find the files to make floppy disk > > > > images on their M$ PC's. > > > Oh dear. Ok,

Re: powerpc cd images

2000-06-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > Does this also affect m68k? > > I think nobody bothered yet to implement hfs stuff for m68k/macs, Michael? > > Right. And there's no chance to get the CDs bootable on m68k Macs anyway > so I'm not sure it truely matters. What is hfsutils used for, I thought > mkhybrid takes care of these th

Re: powerpc cd images

2000-06-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > I've had a report that the powerpc CD images don't boot. I'm looking into > > > it, but before I do - is hfsutils installed on the build machine? I suppose > > > it might not error out if they weren't, and the result would certainly not > > > boot. > > > > You guessed it. hfsutils was no

Re: complete (but non-US only) mirror of phils cd images at 129.13.126.5::

2000-06-14 Thread Philip Hands
Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > rsync 129.13.126.5::debian-cd/ is now a full mirror of > cdimage.debian.org::potato_test-cycle-2_nonUS/ > > phil: sorry that i did transfer so much. the mirror i used (ftp.rfc822.org) > seemes to have only half of the files on some archs like m68

Re: Test Cycle 2 Images available from new site

2000-06-14 Thread Philip Hands
jason andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > mirror.aarnet is now updating the sparc/powerpc/m68k images from > cdimage.debian.org for nonUS. > > btw phil, the MD5SUMS you've generated seems to be only for > the alpha images - can something for all of them be generated? You were looking at it wh

Re: Test Cycle 2 Images available from 129.13.126.5::

2000-06-14 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:28:44PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > "Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 01:21:04PM +0100, Nick Holgate wrote: > > > > > The other arches copy the files so I just followed their example. However > > > IIRC a PC running an

binaries and sources on the same cd?

2000-06-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
I could not find anything in the docs and debian-cd is always generating separate sets of sources and binaries. I need one bootable CD Image with binaries sources etc. Has it been done before or do I need to hack on some scripts? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: powerpc cd images

2000-06-14 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 03:09:47PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've had a report that the powerpc CD images don't boot. I'm looking into > > it, but before I do - is hfsutils installed on the build machine? I suppose > > it might not error ou

Re: cvs and debian-cd

2000-06-14 Thread Philip Hands
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:49:28AM +, Philip Charles écrivait: > > Is cvs up to date, i.e includes the patches and modifications used for the > > current test cycle CDs? > > Yes and no, the "funky" changes for size calculation are not in the CVS

Re: Test Cycle 2 Images available from 129.13.126.5::

2000-06-14 Thread Philip Hands
"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 01:21:04PM +0100, Nick Holgate wrote: > > > The other arches copy the files so I just followed their example. However > > IIRC a PC running an M$ O/S is not able to understand symlinks which would > > make it difficul

RE: powerpc cd images

2000-06-14 Thread Nick Holgate
> yesterday, Nick checked in a few things, I think. Not sure if dmesg is > allready there, it might be the best to add it to the m68k-specials in the > boot-floppies. I checked in a change to debian-cd this afternoon that wget, as was suggested, to retrieve dmesg files when the CD images are cre

Re: powerpc cd images

2000-06-14 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 03:09:47PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've had a report that the powerpc CD images don't boot. I'm looking into > > it, but before I do - is hfsutils installed on the build machine? I suppose > > it might not error ou

RE: MD5SUM Problems (Again?)

2000-06-14 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Nevermind. I ran it for a third time and it synced correctly. > -Original Message- > From: Brooks R. Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 5:16 PM > To: Debian-Cd > Subject: MD5SUM Problems (Again?) > > > Greetings, > I just finished resyncing: > >

Potato Test Cycle 2 on 62.116.33.72

2000-06-14 Thread Gerhard Poul
I just synced the test-cycle 2 (non-US from cdimage.debian.org) on 62.116.33.72. The images of alpha, i386, sparc, and source are available there. The server is located in Vienna, Austria. Please report back, if you think this service is valueable, how it works for you (speed, ...), or what we

Re: powerpc cd images

2000-06-14 Thread Philip Hands
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've had a report that the powerpc CD images don't boot. I'm looking into > it, but before I do - is hfsutils installed on the build machine? I suppose > it might not error out if they weren't, and the result would certainly not > boot. You guess

Re: Test Cycle 2 Images available from 129.13.126.5::

2000-06-14 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 10:01:09AM +0100, Nick Holgate wrote: > > Okay, so now I have the dmesg files, but in order for them to be included in > the CD images the debian-cd scripts have to copy them from somewhere. Has > anyone any idea where that 'somewhere' is? As I don't make the CD images > i

RE: Test Cycle 2 Images available from 129.13.126.5::

2000-06-14 Thread Nick Holgate
> The install > > directory layout mirrors disks-m68k/current. > There is one, in the top directory of the CD: > > ll /mnt/potato-m68k-1/tools/ > total 645 > -r--r--r--6 root root 427 Nov 6 1998 README > -r--r--r--1 root root 341 Jun 11 18:38 TRANS.TBL > -r--r-

Questions about using Debian-CD

2000-06-14 Thread Otto Wyss
I've played around with Debian-CD (2.2.0), partly because there weren't test images around, partly because I might build my own CD (adjusted for Switzerland needs). After downloading all the packages I needed (via FTP on another computer), I built the Packages.gz files and went through the README

Re: Test Cycle 2 Images available from 129.13.126.5::

2000-06-14 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 03:59:20PM +0100, Nick Holgate wrote: > > There is no tools directory at the moment, should I create one? The install > directory layout mirrors disks-m68k/current. There is one, in the top directory of the CD: ll /mnt/potato-m68k-1/tools/ total 645 -r--r--r--6 root

Updated non-US.diff

2000-06-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
OK, I believe I've covered all of Raphael's changes. This one now works fine with !complete. Files: diff tools/strip-nonUS-bin tools/add-bin-doc -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/CUWoCS/CUWoCS.html>CUWoCS home p

Re: And here's the non-US diff

2000-06-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 03:09:18PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:59:19PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >>With this system, we mustn't forget about updating this file ... > >Yes. In fact, I have a (trivial) script that will generate this file, >which I guess should be inc