On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 05:14:30PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:46:36AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > [description removed] > > I have made most of the changed required for my redesign of diskless. > Amazingly, it looks like no changed are required for dpkg. I haven't > yet tested anything though, and implementing secure mode might be a bit > awkward. Currently I am considering the following: I have the my first redesigned version of my diskless package online at http://snoopy.apana.org.au/~ftp/files/debian/diskless/. This directory contains a Packages file, so I will leave it as a challenge to anyone who wants to use apt ;-) Eventually, I will upload it to master, however, I would prefer it if others could test it first... There may be obvious errors that I haven't yet noticed that need to be fixed. I don't think it can do any damage to your system, even if you do attempt to install one of the diskless-image-*.deb packages manually onto your NFS-server's root partition. However, please be careful that you don't overwrite your lilo configuration on your server, if installing a new kernel package (using dpkg --root)... Please start with diskless_*.deb. It contains documentation, and uses one of diskless-image-simple_*.deb or diskless-image-secure_*.deb. I haven't yet fully tested diskless-image-secure_*.deb, but "it should work" (read that as: wont work). diskless-image-simple_*.deb seems to work OK. The documentation is in the diskless_*.deb package: >ls -l /usr/doc/diskless total 15 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7405 Sep 23 16:03 README.Debian.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4004 Sep 23 15:55 TODO -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1703 Sep 16 15:12 changelog.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 511 Jun 13 14:21 copyright The top two files are the most important. Any ideas on better names for diskless-image-simple_*.deb? simple sounds to simplistic for my tastes ;-). -- Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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