debian-cd BoF at DebConf

[ Please note the cross-post and Reply-To ] Hi folks, Here's a summary of what we discussed in the debian-cd BoF [1] last week (9th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video team, the video of the session is already online [2] ...

Message posted on the July 18th, 2012 - 12:30 PM ET

Bug#701099: debian-cd: installer fails with two CD/DVD drives

Package: debian-cd Severity: critical Tags: d-i Justification: breaks the whole system Hi, I am using the Wheezy weekly builds debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso 20130218-18:45 on a new Dell R420. I burned the ISO image to DVD and put it into the ...

Message posted on the February 21st, 2013 - 10:10 am ET

CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

Hey people, Following up on this again... Back in May I warned about CD sizes[1] for the Wheezy release, pointing out that CD#1 isn't big enough any more to provide usable Gnome or KDE installations. There was some discussion about what to do ...

Message posted on the July 06th, 2012 - 05:20 pm ET

Bug#708225: RFS: cd-discid/1.4-1

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cd-discid" * Package name : cd-discid Version : 1.4-1 Upstream Author : Timur Birsh <taem@linukz.org> * URL ...

Message posted on the May 14th, 2013 - 06:50 am ET

Bug#704515: release-notes: updates for "Adding APT source from CD-ROM or DVD"

Package: release-notes Severity: normal Tags: patch In upgrading.dbk, Section 4.3.3 "Adding APT source from CD-ROM or DVD" has: 1) references to /cdrom throughout ...but apparently that's not obsolete quite yet; it's only Wheezy's ...

Message posted on the April 02nd, 2013 - 05:40 am ET

Troubles with debian-cd

Hi folks, Thanks to Thomas Schmitt I got everthing done I wanted done. I had two problems with debian-cd 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 ...

Message posted on the May 07th, 2013 - 04:00 am ET

Bug#663638: debian-cd image weekly page should show proper error messages or/and bug number to follow

Package: debian-cd Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Going to http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/jigdo-dvd/ we do not get any idea something is wrong apart from the date. Going up/back to the parent directory you get the ...

Message posted on the March 12th, 2012 - 04:10 pm ET

No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

I just finished a new install of Wheezy (i386 port) on my computer. The computer has both a CD-ROM drive and a sound card. At first glance, sound appeared to work fine. (For example, when I play a youtube video, I hear sound.) But when I try to ...

Message posted on the September 09th, 2012 - 09:10 pm ET

CD image doesn't exist for download?

After several attempts over several years, I haven't yet had complete success installing Linux. I'm hungry to learn, but am very poor at computerspeak, so please be gentle. I'm trying again. I know, some steps would be removed from the process if ...

Message posted on the July 11th, 2012 - 12:20 pm ET

unable to install Debian using syslinux 4.05(stuck in "Load installer components from CD" step)

Hi, I'm trying to install debian-6.0.5-amd64-CD-1.iso from USB memory-stick. The problem is, that Debian-Installer is not able to "Detect and mount CD-ROM" during the installation process. The USB memory-stick is a 2GB model containing ...

Message posted on the June 17th, 2012 - 09:40 am ET

debian-cd - dists/$DIST/InRelease and binary-$ARCH/Release files

Hi, 1) The file of dists/$DIST/InRelease already exists for quite some time, however currently debian-cd scripts do not: * parse dists/$DIST/InRelease files found on the $mirror; * put dists/$DIST/InRelease in the ISO model A wishlist bug to do ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2012 - 09:40 am ET

No XP Install CD from Dell

I have an old Dell Dimension 4700 computer on which I want to replace the system disk but Dell did not supply an OS CD. The OS is: Digital Media Edition XP 1) What does the Digital Media Edition have that Pro does not have. 2) Does the CD for ...

Message posted on the May 23rd, 2012 - 04:49 pm ET

Strange behaviour 12.04/unity re CD

I am having another go with 12.04/Unity. Having found a link which gives me an old style "Applications Menu" button I am finding unity usable. However if I insert a CD it does not appear anywhere on either the desktop, or the the launcher ...

Message posted on the September 15th, 2012 - 06:49 am ET

Some suggestions for changes to w.d.o/CD/faq entries

Hi, I'm updating the Romanian translation for the CD/faq and I have a few comments/suggestions to the English version: http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/index.en.html#netinst [...] which has a cheap Internet connection [...] May I suggest s/a ...

Message posted on the January 07th, 2012 - 08:30 am ET

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