Dear debian-cd Team: I built i386-xfce-CD-1 [0] using jigdo and didn't get very far due to missing kernel modules, which meant no support for the NIC. A screenshot is attached. The kernel reported by uname is "2.6.18-3-486 #1" I'm not familiar enough with the installer to know what it's looking for on the ISO, but would be happy to provide more information and/or test again. Something else I just noticed - the spashscreen right after starting "installgui" doesn't look right. (See second attachment.) The GUI after that, however, looks fabulous! BTW, it's evident from the screenshots that I'm doing this testing under VMware. Best regards, tony [0] http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-cd/debian-testing-i386-xfce-CD-1.jigdo Steve McIntyre wrote: > We now have *lots* of CD and DVD types being built regularly, so maybe > a quick summary is in order: > > Daily builds > ============ > > * "etch" businesscard for each arch *except* s390 (small image, no > packages - just contains d-i) > * "etch" netinst for each arch *except* s390 (slightly larger image, > d-i and the base system only) > * "sid" businesscard (as above) > * "sid" netinst (as above) > > The "etch" and "sid" versions determine the version of d-i used in > each case. "etch" uses the last known-good d-i image from the archive > (aka etch RC1 at the moment). "sid" uses the latest build from the > porters for each architecture. Both sets are built often, triggered by > the mirror pulse (currently twice daily). Total build time for all of > these is approximately 45 minutes for 44 CDs. > > Weekly builds > ============= > > * full CD sets for each arch and source > * full DVD sets for each arch and source > * (NEW) a KDE version of CD#1 for each arch > * (NEW) an XFCE version of CD#1 for each arch > * (NEW) a 3-arch netinst (amd64/i386/powerpc) > * (NEW) a 3-arch + source DVD#1 (amd64/i386/powerpc/source) > > These builds are normally triggered by the first mirror pulse on a > Monday, UTC timezone. This build takes much longer, due to the sheer > size of the data sets involved, (approximately 15 hours for 293 CDs > and 41 DVDs in the last build). There is now quite some overlap > between these discs, too, which leads me on to: > > Gnome vs. KDE vs. XFCE > ====================== > > The KDE and XFCE variants of CD#1 are now being produced to give more > choice to people for initial installation. By default, CD#1 has always > meant to be enough to install a fully-functioning system, including a > desktop. On sarge, we (just about) managed to make all that fit, > including a choice of KDE or Gnome. However, since the sarge release > the size of the set of packages needed to cover each desktop *and* the > rest of the base system has grown substantially. We're now at the > point where that's just not possible any more. The default CD#1 will > now install a Gnome desktop, and there are replacement CDs that will > install KDE or XFCE instead. Download your own choice. Thanks to Joey > Hess for the work to make these happen. > > Multi-arch > ========== > > Quick warning to avoid possible confusion: this is nothing to do with > the multi-arch binary support that people are working on. The new > multi-arch discs are designed to be convenient for people who > need/want to be able to install Debian onto multiple different types > of machine from a single disc. > > To that end, there is now a combined amd64/i386/powerpc netinst that > is basically an amalgamation of the contents of the individual > netinsts for those arches. This is based on the "etch" d-i version as > described above. > > There is also a combined amd64/i386/powerpc/source DVD which should > contain most of what people will commonly want to install on each of > those 3 arches, roughly equivalent to the contents of the first 3-4 > CDs or so each. Binary-all package overlaps mean that there is space > on this disc for more packages than might be expected. Plus, sources > for all the binaries on the DVD will be included too. This DVD is > therefore probably the ideal choice of disc to sell or give away at > Expos. > > In case it's not obvious, the 3 arches picked for these discs are > simply the most common end-user systems out there. There is scope for > producing more multi-arch discs, but the possible combinations are > *massive* :-). > > To do > ===== > > I'm still expecting to add Live CDs to the list here before we > release. Otherwise, I think we're about set. If there's anything else > you'd like us to do or anything you'd like to ask about, please reply > to this mail - note the Reply-To to the debian-cd list. > > Otherwise, please help us TEST these, especially the variants marked > as NEW above. Downloads are available in multiple formats (iso image, > jigdo, bittorrent) - look at > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/ > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ > > for all your testing CD/DVD needs. > > Cheers,
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