Re: slink_cd: still waiting on final boot/install setup
Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
> [ Apologies again for the major cross-post; things are getting tight and
> we're still missing bits. ]
>
> STATUS
> ======
>
> Slink_cd 1.07 is out as of last night; I've made tiny changes that can
> become 1.08 very soon. The state of play for release is:
>
> We have working beta i386 CD images available (thanks Phil). These have
> been tested already, check cdimage.debian.org for more info and mirror
> locations.
>
> The sparc boot/install stuff is apprently sorted now, and the work needed
> for this went into slink_cd yesterday. Thanks Steve, Eric and others. Can
> somebody write a README.1ST.sparc on similar lines to the i386/m68k
> versions please?
>
> I've been sent docs and I know there are sets of boot disks with the m68k
> people, but there's still no slink_cd support for them yet.
>
> On the alpha front, I've seen/heard _nothing_ about boot/install stuff. Is
> anything happening out there? If we're going to get a chance to get this
> stuff done we need it _now_.
>
> LAYOUTS
> =======
>
> The official CD layouts will be quite simple:
>
> CD 1: main binary section 1, bootable where possible . Will work
> standalone, dependencies are being checked to make sure of this.
>
> CD 2: main binary section 2, bootable where possible. Also contains
> contrib section (binary and source). These 2 discs should work as
> they are, no unmet dependencies for main section, maybe some contrib
> -> non-free. Non-US is _not_ going on the official disks.
>
> CD 3: main source section 1, arch-independent
>
> CD 4: main source section 2, arch-independent
>
> The official CD set should contain all of the above. Complete binary sets
> for each architecture will work, using CDs 1 and 2. And single disk
> versions may be made, using just CD 1. The multicd method will cope with
> these without complaint, using a simple hack in slink_cd: the Packages.cd
> files on each CD will only know about the packages on itself and any prior
> CDs:
>
> CD 1 is standalone
> CD 2 knows about CD 1, CD 2.
> (optional, non-official non-free) CD 5 will know about CD 1, CD 2, CD 5.
>
> The end user just needs to be told to insert the _last_ binary CD first
> when running dselect update.
>
> I can see we'll need 2 binary CDs for each of 4 arches, plus 2 source CDs,
> making 10 images in total. As the images are ~550-650 MB each, I'd
> guesstimate we need approx. 6 GB of archive space for them all on mirrors.
>
> The option of having a single CD that will install and work alone is IMHO
> quite important - it can make life easier/cheaper for distributors, and
> for us at shows when we give them out etc...
>
> TODO
> ====
>
> slink_cd 1.08 is ready to go as a final version; I just need some
> instructions/patches/docs from certain groups, especially the alpha team.
>
> I'm hoping to get slink_cd itself into the archive in time to make the
> slink release - it's all architecture-independent and is already tested,
> so there should be no problems there I hope. But of course, it'll have to
> be in contrib as always because it depends on unzip/lha etc... <sigh>
>
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