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Re: Big DVD ISO9660 images (was: Installer halts asking for a "release"
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Samuel Thibault |
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Re: Big DVD ISO9660 images (was: Installer halts asking for a "release" file) |
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Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:59:01 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30) |
Thomas Schwinge, le Fri 22 Jul 2011 15:24:33 +0200, a écrit :
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:23:02 +0200, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
> wrote:
> > srinivas v, le Thu 21 Jul 2011 21:55:29 +0530, a écrit :
> > > The Debian GNU/Hurd DVD version(updated on 21 july) halts and does not
> > > give me
> > > any option but to go back to the initial installation steps.
> > > The installer is searching for a "Release" file which it is not finding.
> > > I am
> > > running it on a hp tx1301au laptop with amd turion 64 x2, 4 gb or ram,
> > > and an nvidia graphics card. The graphics installer works and after
> > > scanning
> > > all the packages on the dvd, it gives up asking for the "release" file.
> >
> > Mmm, it works for me.
> >
> > > The cd/dvd integrity check also gives the same result.
> >
> > You mean the following md5, right?
> >
> > a65b5b53c481ea6f4382718072747ba2 .//debian-6.0-hurd-i386-DVD-1.iso
>
> According to
> <http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/>, this
> is 4.4 GiB in size -- and I don't think the iso9660fs has gotten the same
> treatment as ext2fs for coping with backend disk image sizes bigger than
> roughly 2 GiB?
Oops, indeed. That didn't prevent me from installing the base + desktop
system, but I guess it can be only by luck.
Samuel