Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc
On Jul 21, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jul 21, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
I call BS :-D !
Joke aside, this i from a system installed on Monday via a
buisnesscard CD:
... <sources.list> snipped...
I don't see any CD source.
Maybe you were talking about netinst?
... "Curiouser and curioser!", cried Alice.
I'll try again -- both netinst and businesscard -- latest daily and
report back.
Well... Now, isn't that curious!
I did two installs, one from the latest daily netinst and one from
the corresponding businesscard CDs.
They produce different sources.list files. The "businesscard"
install does not contain a "deb cdrom..." line, while the "netinst"
does. I must have been confused. I never imagined they would be
different!
However, I stand by what I said:
Putting the install CDrom into sources.list makes sense when you are
installing from a full CD (or DVD) set, because there's a large
amount of significant information on them, *and* the main reason why
you might want to install that way is because of limited (or *no*)
network access. I agree with that.
But, it does *not* make sense for a businesscard or netinst install.
For either of those, you must have reasonable network access to have
any chance of succeeding. Making people keep their install CD around
forever (or until they edit their sources.list file -- which I
contend again is extremely newbie-unfriendly) and making them put it
in the drive every single time they want to install a new application
is just silly. It smacks of MicroSoft. (I know -- Debian's motives
are different, but the user-visible result is the same.)
Rick
PS: For the record -- this bug report mentions a couple other
problems -- Neither of these installs encountered the problem with
the missing "etc/mkinitramfs" directory. And both of them were
missing the "lspci" command -- both were bare-bones installs (no
"Desktop" task selected).
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| rick@darkstar:~$ cat /mnt6/etc/apt/sources.list # netinst
| #
| # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot
powerpc Binary-1 (20060721)]/ etch main
|
|
| deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot
powerpc Binary-1 (20060721)]/ etch main
| deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ etch main
| deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ etch main
|
|
| deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
| deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
|
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| rick@darkstar:~$ cat /mnt7/etc/apt/sources.list # businesscard
| # deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ etch main
| deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ etch main
| deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ etch main
|
|
| deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
| deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
| rick@darkstar:~$
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| Index of /cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd
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| MD5SUMS 21-Jul-2006 01:57
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| debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso 21-Jul-2006
01:55 55M
| debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso 21-Jul-2006 01:57
166M
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