Re: Udebs?
Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 12:16:28PM -0500 wrote:
> I'm sorry I've only been subscribed to this list for about 1 month.
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In general searching the mailing list archive is a good place to start.
http://lists.debian.org/search.html
or you can browse the list:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0012/threads.html
> what is a udeb? and is there anywere I can find out more info ?
A udeb is a 'micro-deb' used by debian-installer, the eventual replacement for
boot-floppies. debian-installer will be modular, each component is a udeb.
> cdebconf ?
an implementation of the debian configuration management system, written in C.
The original implementation was written in perl and as such is too large to be
used by debian-installer.
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> ( Looked on the cvs but couldn't find anything. may be I'm looking in the
> wrong place ? )
There is also some documentation in CVS:
$ export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-boot
$ cvs login
(Logging in to anonymous@cvs.debian.org)
CVS password:
$ cvs co debian-installer
$ cd debian-installer/doc/
$ ls
CVS/ design.txt retriever.txt
ISSUES goals.txt ui.txt
README hardware-detection.txt walkthrough.txt
TODO modules.txt
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> I'm interested in helping.... I know Sh scripts. and I'm learning perl.
> But I have alot more to learn. I hope to learn alot more and get a grasp of
> how every thing works before I volentire and help..
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> Thanks for any info you have.
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