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Re: Where is the base tarball?



On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:08:22PM +0000, Philip Charles wrote:
> 
> If there is no option for a tarball with a root filesystem in debian-boot,
> then the Hurd is in trouble.  At present the Hurd is installed two ways. 
> First, by a cross install where the tarball is unpacked onto a Hurd
> partition from a Linux system.  Secondly, where the tarball is
> incorporated into a modified boot-floppies and installed in a more or less
> standard way.  The same tarball is used by both methods.  A medium term
> solution as far as the Hurd is concerned is not to move beyond the Woody
> boot-floppies and to develop them further if this is needed.

perhaps you mean potato boot floppies?  as i understand it baseX_Y.tgz
is already dead in woody boot floppies...

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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