> Could you state an example of when https would be needed rather than http? httpFs wasn't a typo :) httpfs allows to mount filesystems via http and is built on top of FUSE, see http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/httpfs2 That way one doesn't have to load the whole squashfs image at boot time like with fetch=http://..., which enables even systems with less than 512MB RAM to run say a gnome live system...