Re: Troubles with debian-cd
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 07:54:41PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote:
>Hi folks,
Hi Philip,
> Thanks to Thomas Schmitt I got everthing done I
>wanted done. I had two problems with debian-cd
Hmmm, OK.
>1. When using xorriso 1.2.2 and the associated iso build configuration
>the resulting image would not boot from a flash drive. A previous version
>of debian-cd was ok.
My testing at the time *did* work IIRC. Maybe I missed something,
though.
>2. When building i386 images debian-cd ignored DISKTYPE and put
>everything it could find into the image all 40+GiB. I had not tried
>building i386 on previous versions of debian-cd. Using xorriso 1.2.9 and
>associated build config.
>
>As I do funny things with debian-cd I work directly through makefile and
>CONF.sh and I have noticed that ARCHES and COMPLETE are missing from
>CONF.sh
ACK. They're not there by default; for most people that's fine. As for
the silly-sized image, I've not seen that before. If you check the
log for make_disc_trees, it should explicitly list what the configured
size is.
>A final point, the i386 DVD 1 has a peculiar structure. Mind you it
>works.
What do you mean by "peculiar"? :-)
>It was great to see the iso's and jigdos up so quickly. This must have
>involved a lot of work.
It definitely kept us busy on Saturday, yes!
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