[Pkg-libburnia-devel] Bug#610781: libarchive: Does not recognize d-i ISO images

Samuel Thibault sthibault at debian.org
Mon Jan 24 15:20:54 UTC 2011


George Danchev, le Mon 24 Jan 2011 16:58:22 +0200, a écrit :
> On Monday 24 January 2011 16:16:22 Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> > > It might be a good idea to test in advance whether overwriting bytes
> > > 38919 to 40959 by zeros makes the image recognizable. (Byte numbers
> > > decimal starting at 0. Byte 38912 bears 255, 38913 bears 'C'.)
> > 
> > Unfortunately additional problems has already been detected
> > (by disabling the reserved bytes check). Please feel free to look at
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610783
> > I haven't had any chance to determine if this is because of bugs
> > in libarchive or another problem with the generated isos.
> 
> Some more investigation with powerpc images which have been produced by 
> genisoimage reveals that install directory is unpacked just fine:
> 
> $ bsdtar xf debian-squeeze-di-rc2-powerpc-CD-1.iso

Well, maybe, but my concern is with the i386 image:

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_rc2/i386/iso-cd/debian-squeeze-di-rc2-i386-businesscard.iso

Samuel





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