Re: Bug#109826: base floppy images on the Debian CD
Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> writes:
> Hoping that this will not add any more heat to this thread.
>
> At present the Hurd CD installation requires the installation of a
> tarball.
Do you mean a base tarball?
> While Marcus Brinkmann is working on Hurd udeb's these are
> probably some time away.
Well, Hurd isn't releasing with Woody, so this is more of a
debian-installer issue than a boot-floppies issue.
> What I would be looking for is a way to install a tarball within the
> Debian installer which would not require any significant hacking.
>
> I also have good reason to suspect that consultants and the like produce
> specialised tarballs for customised installations. These people would
> need tools to produce such tarballs.
I'd have to kick this over to Joey Hess or other debian-installer
hackers. The debian-installer system is modular, not as monolith as
boot-floppies, so I can't see how it would be all that hard.
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