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Re: Debian base tarballs



On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:18:11PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:

> First what exactly is a "Linuxcare Bootable Business Card"?

CD's the size of a business card, with about 30 megs of space on them,
that Linuxcare has been giving out at trade shows.

http://lwn.net/1999/features/LinuxWorld/Freebies.phtml

> I´m working on a live-filesystem (demo-fs) for debian and I have to do 
> the very same you want to do to create the demo-fs filesystem.

It seems this is a common enough thing... maybe we should make a
Debian installation to install Debian to a directory.

> PS: Its not the official debian way to unpack/configure the base by
> hand, but it should give an identical result with my script compared
> to the normal insallation routine (I do a md5sum check to ensure
> that).

What is the "official debian way"?

Thanks,
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