Re: [Fwd: ia64 netinstboot image]
I agree more explanation of what each of those architecture ISOs on
netinst web page, applies to would be very helpful. I created a quick
mockup page by adding some guidance on architecture to the netinst page
- <http://gonehiking.org/netinst.html>. Would something like this work?
ISO name has traditionally been tied to the name of architecture in
Debian archives. Intel em64 was named amd64 in debian for better or
worse. I don't mind seeing ISO name decoupled from architecture name but
it might be easier to simply change the name of link to something like
amd-intel64 and let ISO still be called amd64-netinst.iso.
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Khalid
On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 10:53 +0200, Steffen Bode wrote:
> why can't debian.org rename the amd64 iso to amd-intel64.iso ?
> i think it is a clearly link name and this should be to avoid also
> downloading the incorrect image and check out the bootmessage in a
> second step...
>
> on this page: http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst
> i miss realy a information about : which image for which architecture,
> ok most of the links are self-explanatory, except the intel em64 (amd64)
> iso.
>
> Steffen
>
>
> Am Freitag, den 05.09.2008, 10:28 -0600 schrieb Khalid Aziz:
> > On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 10:20 -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:11:52AM -0600, Khalid Aziz wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 09:45 -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:25:31PM +0400, Paul A. Anokhin wrote:
> > > > > > It seems like a half of this maillist traffic is generated by people
> > > > > > mistakingly trying to use ia64 instead of x86-64 version. And I have
> > > > > > to admit that compared to the rest of the internet this is pretty good
> > > > > > error ratio :)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Probably the ia64 port should be named something like "ipf" or
> > > > > > "itanium" to avoid confusion. After all, ia64 is no longer the
> > > > > > official name for the architecture AFAIK, and I think the change was
> > > > > > caused by the same reason.
> > > > >
> > > > > Renaming a port because of something like this isn't really an option
> > > > > - a better answer, imo, would be to modify the ia64 cds to display a
> > > > > splash screen on x86 hardware that explains the issue.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > How would ia64 CD display anything on x86 if it can not boot even???
> > >
> > > add isolinux to the el torito image with a splash screen
> > >
> >
> > Ah, that sounds good. I do like this solution better than renaming the
> > port.
> >
> > --
> > Khalid
> > ===================
> > Khalid Aziz
> > khalid@debian.org
> >
> >
>
>
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Khalid Aziz
khalid@debian.org
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