Re: Talking about Cds .... LinuxTag 2004?

From: Sven Luther (sven.luther@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 12:54:37 CET


On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 05:14:49PM +0100, Daniel E. Atencio Psille wrote:
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> Sven Hoexter wrote:
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> | Hey,
> | ok you just warmed up the CD discussion so let's continue with the CDs for
> | LinuxTag 2004. First I'm unable to manage or master stuff for the LinuxTag
> | this year. If I would like to have a chance to pass my exams I've to
> | concentrate on school so no time for other things. Sorry.
> |
>
> I probably can assist in building the Image but I have no DVD-Writer
> (only a CD-Writer) so actually writing specimen for testing purposes
> would have been done by someone else. CeBIT is too close, but LinuxTag
> would be manageable.
>
> | Ok now for some general stuff:
> | I would vote for DVDs with Knoppix and Sarge with D-I. Donno what's
> the state
> | of debian-cd is ATM but I hope that it can do the job. This needs to be
> | checked by the one who is mastering the CD, I only remember a discussion
> | about a debian-cd rewrite on the debian-cd mailinglist.
> |
> | Comments? ;)
> |
> | Have a nice weekend,
> | Sven
>
> As we're talking about a DVD - would it be (technically) possible to
> produce sort of a multi-architectural DVD? One that could be used on a
> Mac as well as on a ix86, IA64 or SPARC? I don't know much about the
> technical details but I think this could be a really interesting Ad ;)
> Knoppix will be given away for sure by Heise and/or some others as well
> as probably will be done by RedHat and SuSE with their products too.

I would volunteer for doing the powerpc part if it would come to that.
Still, not idea if there is place on a DVD to put many architectures, if
we are going to put the whole sarge archive on it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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