Announcement from Klaus - DVD Knoppix planned

[Sergio1704]

Where did the BIG interest for the new toy go? Have you all found already new toys to play with? I can see hardly any new posts on these threads, and for the 2 DVDs being offered at Ebay there have been only 6 bids, 2 being mine, and therefore not counting, because I also ordered it from Lehmanns

[rec9140]

Where did the BIG interest for the new toy go? Have you all found already new toys to play with? I can see hardly any new posts on these threads, because I also ordered it from Lehmanns

I ordered mine from Lehmanns and am waiting for it to arrive. There is already one known bug with the DVD:

To: debian-knoppix@linuxtag.org
Subject: Re: [debian-knoppix] Linuxtag DVD: /var/lib/dpkg/status
From: knopper@linuxtag.org (Klaus Knopper)
Date sent: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:19:25 +0200

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Hi Georg,

Sorry, some files on the DVD are broken because of an 4GB (32bit
pointer) limit in cloop. Most things work, but the dpkg package list and
some files in /usr/src contain invalid data.

I already mentioned it in my talk, and will put the corresponding files
on the mirror sites for download soon.

I'm rewriting cloop for 64bit pointers now. Of course it will not be
backwards compatible that way.

Reards
-Klaus Knopper

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:38:07AM +0200, Georg Neis wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> I've got the Linuxtag DVD and wanted to know which packages are
> installed:
>
> $ dpkg -l
> dpkg-query: Fehler beim Parsen, in Datei >>/var/lib/dpkg/status<<
> nahe Zeile 1:
> MS-DOS-EOF (^2) im Feldnamen >>f<<
>
> $ file /var/lib/dpkg/status
> /var/lib/dpkg/status: data
>
> Shouldn't this be "ASCII English text" (like on my Debian Woody)?
>
> Gruß, Georg
> _______________________________________________

[yasar]

Sorry, some files on the DVD are broken because of an 4GB (32bit
pointer) limit in cloop. Most things work, but the dpkg package list and
some files in /usr/src contain invalid data.

I already mentioned it in my talk, and will put the corresponding files
on the mirror sites for download soon.

I'm rewriting cloop for 64bit pointers now. Of course it will not be
backwards compatible that way.

Reards
-Klaus Knopper

Hi,

is there a way to repair these files or is there a list out there, which files ar currupt?

regards,

yasar

[rec9140]

is there a way to repair these files or is there a list out there, which files ar currupt?

things work, but the dpkg package list and
some files in /usr/src contain invalid data.

These are the files affected, no list posted. This will effect determine what is installed.

I already mentioned it in my talk, and will put the corresponding files
on the mirror sites for download soon.

To repair you will need to DL from one of the FTP sites the corrected files.