Re: net-fetch
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 12:38:31PM +0100, Marcel Harkema wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 19:58 -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
>
> > I am just starting to look at net-fetch and http-fetch. Some people have
> > reported problems with it, so i thought i'd take a look. Marcel, if you see
> > this, can you let me know what your plans are for http-fetch and net-fetch?
> >
> > So far the only thing I've done is add the ability to interrupt a download.
> > I *think* this works, and hopefully it'll make it into joeyh's 2.2.7 build...
> >
> > I'll look at it a bit more tonight and try to address some of the prompting
> > issues at least. After that i'll be on the road for a few days....
>
> err, which are the prompting issues you're referring to?
>
> my todo list:
> * fetching stuff over the network should be disabled for kernel+modules
Why?
The rescue disks on some architectures have network drivers inbuilt. I
can't see why we want to disable this generally - only if there is no
eth0.
Dan
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