Re: Please clean up the list of netinst images

2002-12-03 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 09:27:34PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: could you please check the http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ page? The _first_ netinst link is dead, and the last one is points to something for the obsolete Potato 2.2r4 (http://markybobdeb.sourceforge.net/elf/). The link to the

Re: debian on i486

2002-12-03 Thread Richard Atterer
[attempting to clear a little bit of the backlog of unanswered debian-cd mails...:-] On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:34:43PM +, Arthur Schuchter wrote: my problem..I want to use Linux Debian on a I486 33MHz 4MB RAM !! maschine, which distribution would you suggest ? Is it possible with this

Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Erisian Saint Vinge
First off let me just say that Jigdo is great and I've used it to download Debian 3 a few times. Now I just have some questions and ideas about how it could be possibly improved/altered. So Jigdo files and the templates are the basis for the iso creation, and it downloads .deb files. My question

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Gordon Huff
At 10:30 AM 02/12/03 -0600, Erisian wrote: First off let me just say that Jigdo is great I like it too. So Jigdo files and the templates are the basis for the iso creation, Backwards, actually. The official iso image is created first, and the jigdo process creates the jigdo and template

Changed http download link for Debian mirror on LEO

2002-12-03 Thread Daniel Lang
Hiho, we have changed our httpd configuration, to match the ftp paths: Daniel Lang wrote on Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:02:53PM +0200: [..] http://ftp.leo.org/download/debian-cd/ This should now be omitted, such that: http://ftp.leo.org/debian/

Re: Changed http download link for Debian mirror on LEO

2002-12-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:40:31PM +0100, Daniel Lang wrote: http://ftp.leo.org/download/debian-cd/ This should now be omitted, such that: http://ftp.leo.org/debian-cd/ Done, thanks. BTW, Daniel, please talk to Adam (of ftp.de) about a debian/ push from

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

2002-12-03 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Josip Rodin wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:08:51PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: Yes, but jigdo is more hassle for the end users. Sure, it is a waste of bandwidth, but if we didn't have bandwidth to waste, we wouldn't run a debian[-cd] mirror do begin with. You

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

2002-12-03 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:08:51PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: A restricted rsync access to main mirrors would be good enough if we don't want cdimage.d.o (or cdimage.us) to waste too much bandwidth. Just so that once we have built the images

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:30:49AM -0600, Erisian Saint Vinge wrote: My question is how are the .jigdo files and templates created and will there be an easy program/way to do this so that one could basically design their own iso with custom packages. Yes, this is possible, but no, it isn't

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread jason andrade
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: Should we extend the popularity-contest package so that people can choose what type of user they are? The resulting stats could be used to create one Debian server CD release, a Debian desktop one, a Debian workstation one, etc. - much like the

creating cd's

2002-12-03 Thread Lay Downing
I have linux/gnu installed and working. I can log in to the personal account, but I cannot get to the root account to change the printer. The gnu login window tells me that I cannot log in to the root director from there. I don;'t know how else to get to the root account. I allowed the default

Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report

2002-12-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Josip Rodin |Index: english/mirror/mirror_list.pl |=== |-open SRC, $mirror_source || |+open(SRC, $mirror_source) || | | Easy on the formatting... :) | | That's not formatting, the || die will never be

Re: CD contents....

2002-12-03 Thread Richard Atterer
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:27:07PM -0200, Altamir Dias wrote: How could I get the CD contents, before to download the images. Is there any way to get this info before to download the images??? I'm not sure if this will be any help to you, but the .jigdo file for a CD contains a list of all

Re: Please clean up the list of netinst images

2002-12-03 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 09:27:34PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: could you please check the http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ page? The _first_ netinst link is dead, and the last one is points to something for the obsolete Potato 2.2r4 (http://markybobdeb.sourceforge.net/elf/). The link to the

Re: debian on i486

2002-12-03 Thread Richard Atterer
[attempting to clear a little bit of the backlog of unanswered debian-cd mails...:-] On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:34:43PM +, Arthur Schuchter wrote: my problem..I want to use Linux Debian on a I486 33MHz 4MB RAM !! maschine, which distribution would you suggest ? Is it possible with this

Re: Are DVD images not officially released yet?

2002-12-03 Thread Richard Atterer
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:33:35AM +0900, Kaz Sasayama wrote: I'm planning to burn DVD-R's for official DVD images, but I can find no jigdo files other than dvd-test. Are there no official DVD images for Debian 3.0 released yet? No - maybe it will happen for 3.0r1, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Re: jigdo-file/lite/easy? multiple sources?

2002-12-03 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 07:49:06PM -0600, Brian Wiese wrote: there was a program jigdo-easy that was a fork off jigdo-lite to include more systems like Windows, but is now unfortunately outdated and doesn't work with latest Debian jigdo files. This conflicts though with the jigdo-easy site [3]

Re: Please clean up the list of netinst images

2002-12-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:49:02PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: could you please check the http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ page? The _first_ netinst link is dead, and the last one is points to something for the obsolete Potato 2.2r4 (http://markybobdeb.sourceforge.net/elf/). The

Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Erisian Saint Vinge
First off let me just say that Jigdo is great and I've used it to download Debian 3 a few times. Now I just have some questions and ideas about how it could be possibly improved/altered. So Jigdo files and the templates are the basis for the iso creation, and it downloads .deb files. My question

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Gordon Huff
At 10:30 AM 02/12/03 -0600, Erisian wrote: First off let me just say that Jigdo is great I like it too. So Jigdo files and the templates are the basis for the iso creation, Backwards, actually. The official iso image is created first, and the jigdo process creates the jigdo and template files.

Changed http download link for Debian mirror on LEO

2002-12-03 Thread Daniel Lang
Hiho, we have changed our httpd configuration, to match the ftp paths: Daniel Lang wrote on Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:02:53PM +0200: [..] http://ftp.leo.org/download/debian-cd/ This should now be omitted, such that: http://ftp.leo.org/debian/

Re: Jigdo needs concept work

2002-12-03 Thread Chris Severance
At 10:56 AM 12/2/2002 -0800, Gordon Huff wrote: I for one am looking forward to your efforts in this field. I have tried to understand how to write for Windows Sockets but it was way too complicated for me. None of the available calls did anything resembling something useful. Then I tried

HOLA

2002-12-03 Thread Eddison Jose Araya Morales
HOLA COMO ESTAN, EXISTE UN PROGRAMA QUE PERMITA QUEMAR CDS PERO QUE PIDA CLAVE CUANDO SE INSERTE EN OTRA MAQUINA, ESTO ES PARA PROTEJER DATOS?. MUCHAS GRACIAS___GEOGRAFOEDDISON JOSE ARAYA MORALES

Re: Changed http download link for Debian mirror on LEO

2002-12-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:40:31PM +0100, Daniel Lang wrote: http://ftp.leo.org/download/debian-cd/ This should now be omitted, such that: http://ftp.leo.org/debian-cd/ Done, thanks. BTW, Daniel, please talk to Adam (of ftp.de) about a debian/ push from

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

2002-12-03 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Josip Rodin wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:08:51PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: Yes, but jigdo is more hassle for the end users. Sure, it is a waste of bandwidth, but if we didn't have bandwidth to waste, we wouldn't run a debian[-cd] mirror do begin with. You

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

2002-12-03 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, jason andrade wrote: On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Josip Rodin wrote: Yeah, but we don't _have_ that 120 GB drive. That's a bit of a showstopper, don't you think? :) if need be i'll try and organize one to be sent. The current needs for that machine is: 3x120+GB drives (pref.

Re: Too few up-to-date CD image mirrors

2002-12-03 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:08:51PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: A restricted rsync access to main mirrors would be good enough if we don't want cdimage.d.o (or cdimage.us) to waste too much bandwidth. Just so that once we have built the images

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:30:49AM -0600, Erisian Saint Vinge wrote: My question is how are the .jigdo files and templates created and will there be an easy program/way to do this so that one could basically design their own iso with custom packages. Yes, this is possible, but no, it isn't

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread jason andrade
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: Should we extend the popularity-contest package so that people can choose what type of user they are? The resulting stats could be used to create one Debian server CD release, a Debian desktop one, a Debian workstation one, etc. - much like the

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Paul E Condon
Gordon Huff wrote: -snip- So Jigdo files and the templates are the basis for the iso creation, Backwards, actually. The official iso image is created first, and the jigdo process creates the jigdo and template files. I'm curious about the process of creating Official iso images. How is it done?

creating cd's

2002-12-03 Thread Lay Downing
I have linux/gnu installed and working. I can log in to the personal account, but I cannot get to the root account to change the printer. The gnu login window tells me that I cannot log in to the root director from there. I don;'t know how else to get to the root account. I allowed the default