Adding packages to basedebs.tar

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Hi List!

I had this crazy notion to add some packages to Debian 3.01r2, because 
when I create a system from scratch it for one has a terrible console 
font and for two it doesn't have a decent file manager.

So first I discovered upon googling that the way to change the root disk 
was appended to my own post of a while ago...

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=slrnacuaa1.aj.jono%40squid.home&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fsafe%3Dimages%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26as_ugroup%3Dlinux.debian.user%26as_usubject%3Ddebian%2520instal%2520from%26as_scoring%3Dd%26lr%3D%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den

Doing that it turns out that dbootstrap does the job. But I still have 
trouble because of an inaccessible packages.debian.org to find where 
boot-floppies.tar.gz is. And maybe it isn't necessary to change dbootstrap.

Anyway: just adding woody packages to basedebs doesn't work:

Error: /dist/woody/release was not pre-downloaded.

Anybody know of a description of how to do this? It would be sort of 
interesting: I use basedebs on a partition that he looks for and I would 
just have to add things to that, which is a lot easier than doing it 
when the PPP connection is first established...

Thanks!

Hugo.