On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:27:03PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:05:25PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 07:56:06PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > need to supply an option when the user is prompted for where to > > > install basedebs.tgz from. But what are the alternatives? Mounted > > > disk? NFS? Network? All of the above (oh god)? > > the only sources im willing to allow for basedebs is NFS, harddisk, > > and already mounted filesystem. > > And floppy, hopefully. (floppy is a very useful fallback mechanism) yes floppy too, the code should all still be there (nothing disappears from b-f, just accumulates as endless cruft). > Doing floppy support just means reading each basedb[00-nn].bin from > /dev/fd0 and putting them together to form a basedebs.tgz and passing > that to debootstrap. and teaching my mkbasetar (bleah i need a better name for that) to split up the tarball. i imagine the utility to do that is floating around b-f tree somewhere... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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