Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-18 Thread Carr, Chris
"Frans Pop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >2) Problem with these small USB images and the way they are written is >that anything already on the USB stick gets deleted and that - given that >most USB sticks nowadays are significantly larger in size - makes most of >the stick completely unus

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-17 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 13:17 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 17 November 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > I'm not in the position to decide about the inclusion of that into the > > Installation Guide but I believe it would be a problem due the > > translation. I think we should keep two patches

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-17 Thread Kenshi Muto
At Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:38:20 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Kenshi Muto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > After seeing installer guide, I think only a few changes are needed. > > Please see also attached patch against installation-guide r56652. > > I'm not in the position to decide about the inclus

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 17 November 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > I'm not in the position to decide about the inclusion of that into the > Installation Guide but I believe it would be a problem due the > translation. I think we should keep two patches in a queue to be > commited as soon as we open svn to squeez

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
Kenshi Muto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi otavio, > > At 15 Nov 08 07:35:39 GMT, > Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> >> After this patch is applied, 'make build_netboot' will build boot.img.gz >> >> in dest/n

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-15 Thread Kenshi Muto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi otavio, At 15 Nov 08 07:35:39 GMT, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> After this patch is applied, 'make build_netboot' will build boot.img.gz > >> in dest/netboo

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-15 Thread Kenshi Muto
Hi, At Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:55:59 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 05:35 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > >> This boot.img.gz is more convenience than hd-media image for usual > > >

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-15 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 05:35 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > >> After this patch is applied, 'make build_netboot' will build boot.img.gz > >> in dest/netboot/ directory for i386 and amd64 with both te

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-14 Thread Otavio Salvador
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> After this patch is applied, 'make build_netboot' will build boot.img.gz >> in dest/netboot/ directory for i386 and amd64 with both text and gtk >> installers. >> Because I didn't know well about other ar

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > After this patch is applied, 'make build_netboot' will build boot.img.gz > in dest/netboot/ directory for i386 and amd64 with both text and gtk > installers. > Because I didn't know well about other architectures, my patch didn't > touch them. > > This b

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-14 Thread Kenshi Muto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Version: 20081029 Tags: patch Hi, I made a patch to produce bootable netboot image for (mainly) USB stick. After this patch is applied, 'make build_netboot' will build boot.img.gz in dest/netboot/ director