Re: Installation report
--- Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 09:27:32AM -0700, James Morrison wrote:
>
> >> The only a bit tricky thing I had to do is download the packages that
> >> are one alpha.gnu.org, but required by cross-install, by hand, and put
> >> them in partial/
>
> > I don't understand what you mean?
>
> I mean that the most complicated step of the install was figuring out
> that the cross-install script wasn't smart enough to go looking on
> alpha.gnu.org for the .deb's it doesn't find in the debian archives,
> firing up an ftp client, downloading these .deb's and putting them in
> the place where cross-install would find them (the "partial/"
> subdirectory). Yes, this isn't a complicated step, but was the most
> complicated step of the install. Hence, the installation went very
> smoothly.
>
> --
> Lionel
Well, cross-install already handles this in a manual way.
cross-install --download "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian";
=====
James Morrison
University of Waterloo
Computer Science - Digital Hardware
2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org
Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU
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