On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:07:00PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:41:01PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > but if aj wants base.tgz in all incarnations dead we shall have to > > forgo hard disk and floppy installation methods. > > Why? The floppy and harddrive installation requires you to download > images from a new connection. That being that case, it's safe to say you > will have some sort of net connection to complete the installation via > dboostrap. i tend to agree, though there are some contrived cases where installing via a base tarball without net access is useful. for example i have a very slow internet connection and several machines, i would like to download the base tarball once and then reuse on each machine. also after i install one and use apt-move to make a mini mirror of the archive which other machines can use in addition to the net access. since all machines have mostly the same packages installed at a minimum (priority standard) those will only have to be downloaded once. debootstrap doesn't like apt-move mirrors since they don't have proper Release files. i know there are other ways to work around this just none as straightforward as downloading base.tgz and using it multiple times. > If you don't have a net connection, use a CD install, since presumably > just having base wont be enough in this case anyway. thats the ideal method of course. asside from getting a real internet connection. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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