Re: Debian Woody floppy images

[Sven L. <lu...@dp...>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:49:44PM +0200, Giorgio Terzi wrote:
> Hello Michel,
> 
> i think you know that i am giving my collaboration to test 
> APUS Debian Woody boot floppies with the supervision of 
> Sven Luther.
> I think that now the tests are more than beta and i wish
> that this software could be tested also by other APUS 
> people that uses Debian.
> Note however that now this is still classified unstable.
> 1st) May i upload in some manner, somewhere in
>      Our SourceForce space this software, with the
>      needed notes and instructions ? 
> 2nd) I have seen in Debian package lists that 2.4.4
>      kernel .deb appeared but after a while quickly 
>      disappeared. (i however got my own copy... :))  
>     Why this?  
>      I had tested it with boot_floppies and all was fine:
>      The kernel package was correctly handled when MAKing 
>      boot floppies and also the root image loading was OK. 
>      The 2 driver's images that was created was loaded 
>      correctly and was very amazing to see the (very big) 
>      list of modules that was possible to configure! 

mmm, very nice, ...

> For Sven,
> 
> As you asked me i am going to upload, if approved,
> the boot images to SourceForge, these will be better 
> that the ones i have uploaded to you:
> they (what i have uploaded to you) had a problem in
> the borders visualization that now is fixed,
> and this copy will be with 2.4.4 ( unstable...) ;-).
> I have finished 3 little progs to extract, build, boot 
> and load the floppy disks (1.76M) with the 1.44M file
> images. Note the word boot. :-).
> I am refining these three and they will be added, 
> with instructions, in the tarball i shall upload.
> I shall also meet Alan Buxey: his program that creates
> the boothack strings is a very good idea and i wish
> to use it...
> I am also continuing to update from Debian CVS my 
> own archive of the software but i haven't seen yet 
> added that two patches needed by APUS.
> What do you think about ?

mmm, will have a look nextly, and commit the patches. Michel could do it also,
if you send the diff to him.

> Weather report.
> Now is evening.
> I am sweating and my 17' monitor's plastic is near to melt.  
> This is a sunny country... ;-) 
> I wish to know if someone is able to build a sweaty face:
> happy :-) , sad :-( , humour ;-) , but sweat ?
> :))

=) ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther