Re: pseudo-image creation of m68k slink r2 (was RE: Hello, )

["J.A. Bezemer" <costar@panic.et.tudelft.nl>]

Can someone please close this bug? Reasons below. I'm author/maintainer of
mentioned package, but no official Debian developer.

BTW, this bug was reported against "cdimage.debian.org", which does not exist.
Should it? Maintainer could/should be debian-cd@lists.
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Hi!

The "problems" with the Pseudo-Image Kit & m68k are due to the fact that
the available CD images are still 2.1r2, but the FTP archive is already at
2.1r5-r6. So every file that's changed since 2.1r2 is required for the CD, but
not any more available on the FTP sites. However, as discussed in the README,
this is not fatal at all, and you can go on with the rsync step just fine.
Rsync will fetch the missing data directly from the CD image on the rsync
server. (Yeah, that's pretty inefficient, but still more efficient and robust
than FTP/HTTP.)

Conclusion: this is not a bug, merely an inefficiency. The real bugs that
caused this are "being resolved" at this moment, we hope to have 2.1r6 images
for all platforms soon.

Regards,
  Anne Bezemer


On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Mike Huddleson wrote:

> I myself also had similar problems, So therefore I switched from using the
> PCDK to actually setting up a small mirror and then building it with
> "slink_cd" or "debian_cd" using the "hfsutils" package.. Though on my slow
> 56k I'm not done getting it all yet but I'm trying. But it should offer a
> temp fix for your problem...
> 
> Mike Huddleson
> Middletown, Ohio
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jasonm [mailto:jasonm]On Behalf Of Jason Mesker
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 12:42 PM
> To: debian-68k@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> I am interested in installing the m86k version of debian on a mac that I
> have laying around but am having some problems.  I am using the pseudo
> image kit and getting all differant kinds of missing files that are
> required for the install such as dpkg, apt, perl-base along with quite a
> few others.  I have put in a bug report about the problem quite some
> time ago and I have been trying to finish the creation of my iso for
> quite some time with no luck.  Maybe you guys can help me in some way
> getting an iso or maybe helping get the ftp problem fixed.  My bug
> report # for referance is 62255 and it has detail as to what is
> happening when I try to create the iso.  Thanks for any help that you
> guys can give me.