Re: boot-floppies status from an insider (was Re: Deficiencies in Debian)
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 08:58:55PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr> writes:
>
> > I am on debian-boot for a long time. The truth is that a lot of people are
> > doing small things but nobody leads. No management. No decisions.
>
> I would agree with this. Enrique would probably appreciate someone
> taking over management and coordination of boot-floppies.
>
> > The current package does not compile (for nobody)
>
> True. At least I just recently fixed my documentation stuff.
>
> > and there are important design decisions (two are specially
> > important: how to split the rescue disk for the larger kernel 2.2
> > and how to replace the old Tasks/Profiles system, which everybody
> > criticiezs, but nobody replaces) which are pending.
>
> Untrue. Both of these are resolved but not completely implemented.
>
> Regarding boot/root, we've decided simply to build a 1.4k image for
> boot, and another 1.4k image for root. CD-ROM booting should be able
> to use a 2.8k El Torito (or equivalent) single image for both. TFTP
> shouldn't have a big problem with this scheme either.
>
> Regarding tasks/profiles, Martin Babinsky (sp) has spear-headed a
> meta-packages based effort, which seems to be on it's way. Now we
> need a new GUI to allow users to select their tasks and profiles, and
> then testing. In this flow, newbies can skip dselect altogether.
>
> Here's my unofficial boot-floppies TODO:
>
> * build for all supported arches
>
> * eliminate all dselect acquisition methods aside from apt and
> possibly mountable (for NFS, which apt doesn't handle -- socks
> also not handled by apt but I don't know if we care)
>
> * GUI for apt's sources.list configuration
>
> * GUI for tasks/profiles (see above)
>
> * better lilo configuration (borrow from slackware perhaps?)
>
> * close bugs!
>
> * nifty stuff like TFTP and and serial console installation should be
> supported on all possible architectures
> (TFTP images may require some software in Debian which is not currently
> available)
>
> * update documentation (too early to do this)
>
I would just like to ask what is the status of i18n of the boot-floppies?
I'm just not sure if there have been some decisions about the following:
- has it been decided if potato will officially support multilingual
installation?
- if yes, then has it been decided how this will be achieved? (a floppy set
for each language or one multi-lingual floppy)
thanks in advance,
Marcin
PS: I have checked out the 2-1 boot-floppies branch and I am now translating
the docs. I even succeeded in building a trial html version :) I also have
contacted one Pole who was listed in Changelog for editing lang_pl.h
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Marcin Owsiany
porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl
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