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

2002-05-31 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:54:47AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: What's wrong with basic-desktop being x-window-system-core plus a WM plus xterm? As I said, x-window-system contains things which are far away from being basic. If we force it to be on

Re: CD release announcement

2002-05-31 Thread Philip Hands
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 04:00, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: Where will the jigdo files turn up? open is a bit closer, but I get good rates to raff too. Just wondering if I should have that cron job that mirrors jigdo-area point at cdimage or open. I'll be building the images on open, but the plan

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

2002-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:54:47AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: What's wrong with basic-desktop being x-window-system-core plus a WM plus xterm? As I said, x-window-system contains things which are far

About harware detection and configuration tools in 1st CD

2002-05-31 Thread Mantas K.
Hello, I still think, that including some packages on 1st CD (which use just little space) would improve much debian woody installation from CDs. I got no answer to my suggestions about improving 1st debian CD and desktop task from official maintainer :( Previously Philip Hands wrote: OK,

Re: woody-src-?.jigdo template url incorrect,

2002-05-31 Thread Richard Atterer
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:08:30AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: Also, woody-src-6 failed to verify through jigdo-lite, but its md5sum match the value in the MD5SUM file There is a problem with the md5sum code in jigdo 0.6.6 and less, but so far I thought that it only occurred on big-endian

questions about other languages install docs in CD

2002-05-31 Thread Jose Ramon Alvarez Sanchez
Hi, I am testing the pre-release versions of Debian 3.0 i386 CD-1 (pre9 download through jigdo OK). There is a [CD]/install/doc/ directory with the install instructions (in english) and some directories for other languages (ca, cs, da, es, fr, it, pt), but i miss the index.??.html inside

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

2002-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
Mantas K. wrote: data produced by popularity-contest are only about systems connected to internet [...] AFAIK, popularity-contest uses email to send the data. You don't need a permanent internet connection, a dial-up should work as well. Data from popularity-contest may not be as realiable as

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

2002-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
Mantas K. wrote: Most simple users don't like debian, because they think, that there are not user-friendly configuration tools (they simply download 1 CD, try to install and find that they are rigth). Well, if they really think Debian is just CD #1, I would much prefer that they continue

Re: woody-src-?.jigdo template url incorrect,

2002-05-31 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Fri, 31 May 2002 14:15:09 +0200 Richard Atterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:08:30AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: Also, woody-src-6 failed to verify through jigdo-lite, but its md5sum match the value in the MD5SUM file There is a problem with the md5sum code in

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

2002-05-31 Thread Chris Lawrence
On May 31, Santiago Vila wrote: Mantas K. wrote: Most simple users don't like debian, because they think, that there are not user-friendly configuration tools (they simply download 1 CD, try to install and find that they are rigth). Well, if they really think Debian is just CD #1, I

Failure creating image

2002-05-31 Thread W. van den Akker
Hi, I have downloaded the .jigdo and .template files from cdimage.debian.org. It were files from the 3.0-pre9 woody directory. Next step was creating the images (I use jigdo version 0.6.6, but 0.6.5 also does it). I used jigdo-file -j woody-i386-1.jigdo make-image (or mi). The program

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

2002-05-31 Thread Patrick Strasser
Philip Charles wrote: On Fri, 31 May 2002, Patrick Strasser wrote: Cut To sum up, first we need a list of files that can be found on mirrors with their corresponding location, what I'm trying to do ATM. And second the files itself for the checksums, which we get from the mounted image. I

Re: Failure creating image

2002-05-31 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 09:13, W. van den Akker wrote: Hi, I have downloaded the .jigdo and .template files from cdimage.debian.org. It were files from the 3.0-pre9 woody directory. Next step was creating the images (I use jigdo version 0.6.6, but 0.6.5 also does it). I used jigdo-file -j

Re: Failure creating image

2002-05-31 Thread W. van den Akker
Greg, I've tried it also with jigdo-lite. After the prompts I get the same message. I think jigdo-file is called from jigdo-lite. gr, Willem - Original Message - From: Greg C. Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 8:28 PM Subject: Re: Failure

Woody Mini-cd results

2002-05-31 Thread D E Radel
Hi to Chris Lawrenceand everyone at Debian! A HUGE thank you for compiling such a cool cd. Recently due to a disaster I had to re-install my entire system and didn't want to use my aged Potato CD's or download 8 full beta cds of Woody. Your 185MB CD was a life-saver! It's a keeper!

Re: Woody Mini-cd results

2002-05-31 Thread jason andrade
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, D E Radel wrote: A HUGE thank you for compiling such a cool cd. Recently due to a disaster I had to re-install my entire system and didn't want to use my aged Potato CD's or download 8 full beta cds of Woody. it's a bummer there's a user perception around that you need