Re: woody Debian Installer plans
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 12:36:56PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> How important is it for the Hurd to have a native installer?
>
> Im sure the Hurd users would prefer to not have to depend on "foreign"
> kernels, but is it practical ?
>
> The easiest path would be to install hurd packages from a linux based
> installer, i assume most utilities that the installer would use would
> need to be ported to the hurd, to do a native hurd installer. Some
> utilities the new installer will likely be based on are busybox,
> libdetect, libparted, slang.
Does this make sense? We run things in /target during the install!
Think, for instance, PCMCIA, or postinsts.
Dan
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