Hi all,
Having struggled to get hold of an old Debian ISO for SPARC32 testing, I'm wondering would it be worth setting up a download area on www.openfirmware.info for storing ISOs for OpenBIOS testing? We could then setup a new page on the wiki which links to each ISO grouped by platform (which would act as a rough regression checklist for patches). Thoughts?
ATB,
Mark.
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk wrote:
Hi all,
Having struggled to get hold of an old Debian ISO for SPARC32 testing, I'm wondering would it be worth setting up a download area on www.openfirmware.info for storing ISOs for OpenBIOS testing? We could then setup a new page on the wiki which links to each ISO grouped by platform (which would act as a rough regression checklist for patches). Thoughts?
Good idea. Though I have a few tens of gigs of ISOs, perhaps Stefan would not want such amounts of data on his server?
On 6/28/10 7:59 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk wrote:
Hi all,
Having struggled to get hold of an old Debian ISO for SPARC32 testing, I'm wondering would it be worth setting up a download area on www.openfirmware.info for storing ISOs for OpenBIOS testing? We could then setup a new page on the wiki which links to each ISO grouped by platform (which would act as a rough regression checklist for patches). Thoughts?
Good idea. Though I have a few tens of gigs of ISOs, perhaps Stefan would not want such amounts of data on his server?
Yes, could we instead put a page on the wiki with links to the original locations of those images?
Stefan
Stefan Reinauer wrote:
Good idea. Though I have a few tens of gigs of ISOs, perhaps Stefan would not want such amounts of data on his server?
Yes, could we instead put a page on the wiki with links to the original locations of those images?
Well maybe, but the issue in this case was that I couldn't find the particular ISO anymore because it was so old :(
Is there no way we could say set up a sourceforge project for qemu-testing, upload the ISOs there, and then point the wiki links to that?
ATB,
Mark.
Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
Well maybe, but the issue in this case was that I couldn't find the particular ISO anymore because it was so old :(
What version are you looking for? I've almost certainly got at least one each of Woody, Sarge, Etch and Lenny. Woody is the only one I could reliably run SMP on an SS1000E, but that's another story :-)
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Well maybe, but the issue in this case was that I couldn't find the particular ISO anymore because it was so old :(
What version are you looking for? I've almost certainly got at least one each of Woody, Sarge, Etch and Lenny. Woody is the only one I could reliably run SMP on an SS1000E, but that's another story :-)
Hi Mark,
Sorry for the delay on this - got side-tracked into actual coding again! It was etch for SPARC32 I was looking for (and eventually found). Your offer is greatly appreciated, but still doesn't resolve the issue that eventually some ISOs required for testing OpenBIOS are going to become obsolete unless someone makes an effort to archive them somewhere :(
ATB,
Mark.
On 7/6/10 11:51 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Well maybe, but the issue in this case was that I couldn't find the particular ISO anymore because it was so old :(
What version are you looking for? I've almost certainly got at least one each of Woody, Sarge, Etch and Lenny. Woody is the only one I could reliably run SMP on an SS1000E, but that's another story :-)
Hi Mark,
Sorry for the delay on this - got side-tracked into actual coding again! It was etch for SPARC32 I was looking for (and eventually found). Your offer is greatly appreciated, but still doesn't resolve the issue that eventually some ISOs required for testing OpenBIOS are going to become obsolete unless someone makes an effort to archive them somewhere :(
Mark,
if you send me your sourceforge username I will add you to the sourceforge openbios project so you can add the images there.
Stefan
Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
Sorry for the delay on this - got side-tracked into actual coding again! It was etch for SPARC32 I was looking for (and eventually found). Your offer is greatly appreciated, but still doesn't resolve the issue that eventually some ISOs required for testing OpenBIOS are going to become obsolete unless someone makes an effort to archive them somewhere :(
Glad you're sorted. I think that what you're seeing is part of a wider issue, which is that not only is it impossible to get a .iso of some particular version but the backend repository needed to install additional packages might have been closed down.
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