ISO archive on www.openfirmware.info?

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

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.

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PostgreSQL - PostGIS
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[Blue Swirl]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland(a)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?

[Stefan Reinauer]

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(a)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

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

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 - Senior Technical Architect
PostgreSQL - PostGIS
Sirius Corporation plc - control through freedom
http://www.siriusit.co.uk
t: [phone]

Sirius Labs: http://www.siriusit.co.uk/labs

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

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
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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[Mark Cave-Ayland]

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.

-- 
Mark Cave-Ayland - Senior Technical Architect
PostgreSQL - PostGIS
Sirius Corporation plc - control through freedom
http://www.siriusit.co.uk
t: [phone]

Sirius Labs: http://www.siriusit.co.uk/labs

[Stefan Reinauer]

 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 Morgan Lloyd]

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.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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