Re: 2.2 CD images appearing

2000-08-17 Thread jason andrade
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, jason andrade wrote: Another thing - is this really true ? from: http://cdimage.debian.org/ftp-mirrors.html NOTE: USE OF THESE SITES IS DISCOURAGED!! If possible, use the Pseudo-Image Kit. that's actually not true for us - we aren't discouraging anyone from using our

Re: Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened

2000-08-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:12:37PM +1000, jason andrade wrote: On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Ben Collins wrote: I've gotten reports that the ISO for CD#1 on sparc is completely broken. Although the packages and dist files are there, the CD will not boot, since almost none of the boot1 files are

Mirror for the debian 2.2 release

2000-08-17 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, I'm happy to tell you, that now a complete mirror for the images of the is available on ftp.gigabell.net. It's accessable via ftp/http via ftp://ftp.gigabell.net/pub/debian-images/2.2_rev0. Ciao Christian -- Gigabell AG / TechnikTelefon: +49-(0)69-17084-700

Re: Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened

2000-08-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, a side note, but I think an important one. Ben Collins wrote: We have to remember, vendors are burning these CD's almost as soon as we make them available. WE are costing them money when we fuck up, and it isn't thre fault because they expect these things to work when we

Re: Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened

2000-08-17 Thread Philip Hands
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, one thing that'd help would be having a cdimage.debian.org that doesn't crash all the time. That's the main reason we didn't have any time at all to check things, or for Phil to double check things with you as to how things should be done when

Re: Can't boot

2000-08-17 Thread Philip Hands
David Huggins-Daines [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded the boot disks from potato and attempted to boot. I also burnt a cd of the /debian-cd/2.2/alpha/binary-alpha-1.iso and attempted to boot. Both produce the same results. ARGH. Crap

Re: Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened

2000-08-17 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Ben Collins wrote: I've gotten reports that the ISO for CD#1 on sparc is completely broken. Although the packages and dist files are there, the CD will not boot, since almost none of the boot1 files are on the image. I'd hardly call this "completely broken". I guess you

Re: Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened

2000-08-17 Thread Philip Hands
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WTF is the difference? Nothing but a naming scheme. It's still a change, either way you do it, why do you want to nitpick the mechanism? Personally, I'd favour doing something that makes it as clear as possible that it was a CD production SNAFU, and that

Re: Can't boot

2000-08-17 Thread Wakko Warner
ARGH. Crap crap crap crap crap. I was hoping that some people would have taken the initiative to actually test this stuff *before* the release. I am not endowed with the massive bandwidth that seems to be required in order to make official CD images, so I can only test boot-floppies.

New fast, soon complete mirror.

2000-08-17 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
The mirror: rsync-debcd.acc.umu.se It will probably have all images within an hour. (Currently lacking a arm, alpha and powerpc NONUS-images.) It is fast in both cpu and bandwidth. It will only be fast until 26/8, after that it will be the regular slow ftp.se.debian.org. There might be reason

Best mirror for cd imnage rsync?

2000-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
Howdy, We've shuffled machine responsibilities on our servers here and suddenly have about 18 G freed up (what a coincidence :) Since we have a complete local mirror I've used the "debian-cd" package to create images; I'd like to rsync these against c.d.o or somewhere to ensure I've got the

Re: Best mirror for cd imnage rsync?

2000-08-17 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone care to toss me a clue? I want images but I don't want to hose c.d.o or use unnecessary bandwidth! Try trumpetti.atm.tut.fi. It is identical to c.d.o except that binary-arm-1_NONUS.iso is still missing. There is something between us and c.d.o

Re: New fast, soon complete mirror.

2000-08-17 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: The mirror: rsync-debcd.acc.umu.se It will probably have all images within an hour. (Currently lacking a arm, alpha and powerpc NONUS-images.) We now have all the images. The md5sums have been verified. We only allow rsync access, but that

Re: Can't boot

2000-08-17 Thread Jay Estabrook
- Comments related to failure to boot on AS1000A 4/xxx --- On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:44:47PM -0400, Wakko Warner wrote: I know what the alpha boot problem on mine is, from what I understand, this alpha box wasn't supported in 2.2.x until 2.2.17pre12 (kernel I'm using now). 2.0

DAT - installation ??

2000-08-17 Thread Stefano
Since debian is becoming a big set of CDs, can we find a way to make a tape installation ??? I have a bunch of DAT drives and I would be happy to write DEBIAN installation tapes for other Stefano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened

2000-08-17 Thread Philip Hands
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I could blame myself, but the fact is the image was not created right (it needs to be done as either root, or under fakeroot, which requires the *entire* process be done in a single session, not multiple fakeroot incantations, which might be the cause

Re: WG: Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened

2000-08-17 Thread goswin . brederlow
Peter Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not for me... Life is nice isn't it? (And then stop sending this "Not for me"-answers all the time or something bad could happend) I would guess thats a mial loop, like an away message. MfG Goswin --

WG: Netscape Probs

2000-08-17 Thread Annette . Schweigardt
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