On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 05:14:38AM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > I just downloaded b-f 3.0.15 (compact set, built on 2001-10-16) and > installed Woody on my Dell Latitude C800 laptop. Everything went very > smoothly. My only comments, questions actually, on the install(er) are: > > (1) what happened to the progress meters that used to show up when > dowloading rescue.bin, drivers.tgz, etc ? I had gotten used to the > download rate meter, progress meter, ETA info, etc. that used to be in > the potato b-f/installer. i think someone ripped it out and added parsing of busybox wget output, that may have only been half done in 3.0.15 i suppose. > (2) can the base system files be downloaded by FTP ? I thought I saw an > email posted to this list saying that FTP retrieval of base system files > was possible. well i fixed debootstrap but apparently dbootstrap still does a `ftp:// ? FOAD!' someone already volunteered to fix that, dunno if they have yet or not. > (3) in the post-boot configuration, why are MD5 passwords defaulted to > "No" ie not enabled ? compatibility with crufty old unixes i suppose. if you were to make the box into an NIS server that would matter i think. > (4) this is not totally related to debian-boot, but are there any plans > to ship Woody with a 2.4 kernel ? only on architectures which require it. (read not i386) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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