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On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Bernd Hentig wrote:
> Date: 07 Mar 2003 12:11:08 +0100
> From: Bernd Hentig <bernd@ixsoft.de>
> To: Richard Atterer <richard@list03.atterer.net>
> Cc: LINUXMAN69 <LINUXMAN69@terra.es>, debian-cd@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: 3.0r1 DVD ISO jigdo: Myth or Reality?
> Resent-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 05:40:25 -0600 (CST)
> Resent-From: debian-cd@lists.debian.org
>
> Am Mon, 2003-03-03 um 15.22 schrieb Richard Atterer:
> > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 02:39:33PM +0100, LINUXMAN69 wrote:
> > > Debian 3.0r1 CD images were released 2 months ago. Can we expect to have
> > > official 3.0r1 DVD isos in the near future (or not) ? Is some work in
> > > progress or we must assume that Debian DVD ISO is an abandoned task? A
> > > status report would be right
> >
> > I'm not too sure. Steve said at one point that he was going to generate DVD
> > images, but first there were hardware problems, and now (presumably) he
> > can't find the spare time.
>
>
> Well, we ran into several problems when generating the DVD images with
> debian-cd on a Debian 3.0r0 server. We used to generate Debian CDs on
> Red Hat Linux, the last version we did was 2.2r5 I think.
> But with debian-cd for Woody, we could not get some of the required
> packages (apt-get) to work on Red Hat 7.3, so we installed a Debian 3.0
> server for this task, assuming that it would be more easy to do on a
> "native" system.
>
> Maybe this was a wrong assumption since our installation of Debian 3.0
> does not handle files > 2 Gigabyte. After running debian-cd (the most
> recent version from CVS) for some hours, the following messages
> appeared:
>
> 50.17% done, estimate finish Fri Mar 7 10:44:53 2003
> /usr/bin/mkisofs: File too large. cannot fwrite 32768*1
>
> The partition is 94% free:
> /dev/hda7 39404620 2174280 35228644 6% /priv
>
> So maybe this is the reason why there are no Debian 3.0r1 DVD images
> available from anyone yet, unless we did something wrong during the
> installation ;-)
> However, I think we got apt-get to run on Red Hat 7.3 meanwhile and will
> try to generate the DVD images on this system tonight. Hopefully this
> will not cause other problems.
>
> We intended to switch one of our servers from Red Hat to Debian GNU
> Linux, but I think this cannot be done since we have a lot of files that
> are bigger than 2 GB on our harddisks (I cannot remember we ever had
> 64-bit file size problems with Red Hat Linux). Maybe we have to wait for
> SID final ? Will this be Debian 4.0 or 3.1 ?
>
> Best Regards
> Bernd Hentig
>
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