[NCLUG] Fragile flies with broken wings

[Bryan Stillwell]

Hi Elizabeth,

I was one of the guys at the CLUE installfest that helped set that up
for you (I was the guy running Debian on his iBook).  To bad we ran out
of time before we were able to get everything set up.  :(

Anyways to let all the other Debian-ites on the list know how your
system is set up, here is what's going on:

Since we were running out of time and didn't have a cd burner handy, we
decided to make an iso out of my roommates debian woody cd using
mkisofs.  The file is named simply debiancd (I believe), and is in her
home directory.  I also made a quick shell script that would issue the
proper mount command to mount the iso on a loopback in the /cdrom
directory.

We probably should have set up her /etc/apt/sources.list file so that it
would work with this setup, but we forgot that step...  I'm also not
sure what the correct line would be.  Would the standard
"deb cdrom:blahblah" line work, or would she have to do something like
this?:

deb file:///cdrom/debian woody main contrib non-free

Thanks,
Bryan

On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:17:25PM -0800, Person Who Asked To Have Her Name Removed From The Internet wrote:
>
>I've got an iso image on my harddrive of some of woody
>which I can mount but don't know how to get dselect
>to access it....
>help?!?
>
>
>--- dmiles <dmiles at holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
>> yeah, I pretty much did the same but it would be really nice to have a way of
>> getting the woody stuff on a CD 'cause otherwise we're really going to kill the
>> Apt servers in this install fest.
>> 
>> Is there a program I can run (like dselect maybe) that would simply download the .deb
>> files and allow me to build a disc image out of them?
>> 
>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 22:08:33 -0700, John Purser <jmpurser2 at home.com>  wrote:
>> > I got to woody by downloading some .raw files, changing the name to .iso and
>> > burning the CD.  That said I only got a base distribution that way.  Nothing
>> > else would install during installation.  No trouble with apt-get afterwards
>> > so I'm adding things on program at a time.
>> > 
>> > Once I got over the rough install I really liked Debian Woody.
>> > 
>> > John Purser
>> > 
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: nclug-admin at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-admin at nclug.org]On Behalf Of
>> > > dmiles
>> > > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 21:52
>> > > To: nclug at nclug.org
>> > > Subject: Re: Re: [NCLUG] Fragile flies with broken wings
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > My experiance is that potato is so incredibly old that it
>> > > doesn't even support newer hardware. It had a lot of trouble
>> > > with my P3 and I never did get my sound card up and
>> > > running... I had to go to woody for that.
>> > >
>> > > BTW, anybody knwo where I can get some woody ISO's?
>> > >
>> > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 04:46:21 +0000, Matthew Wilcox
>> > > <willy at debian.org> wrote:
>> > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 07:13:09PM -0800, dmiles wrote:
>> > > > > To tell you the truth I'm not sure WHY they even have
>> > > > > potato, it's SO old...
>> > > >
>> > > > Old is stable.  There are still people running (and maintaining) the
>> > > > Linux 2.0 kernel.  That said, it would make a lot of sense
>> > > to do more
>> > > > frequent releases, and it is something we're planning.  How
>> > > well that
>> > > > will work remains to be seen.