Re: Best way to use base-config_1.33.18?
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 10:11:16AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:26:09AM +0100, J M Cerqueira Esteves wrote:
> > * John H. Robinson, IV <jhriv@ucsd.edu> [2002-05-09 22:47 +0000]:
> > > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:34:30PM -0300, Jim Skea wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm posting this to debian-boot since it seems where most of the
> > > > discussion on the base-config problem is gong on.
> > >
> > > my question, for those with base-config 1.33.17, and no easy way to
> > > upgrade it, what is the workaround?
> >
> > What I've been doing is:
> >
> [snip of easy way of upgrading base-config]
>
> i'm more worried about the debian newbies that have or will get woody
> pre-release ISO's with the broken base-config. telling them ``download
> the new base-config, and toss it on a floppy'' is certianly one solution
> (and the one i would follow, even though my newest system does not
> _have_ a floppy drive . . .)
>
> i'm looking for the workaround for the person locked up in their bunker,
> cut off from civilisation, with only the (flawed) woody cdroms.
>
> is there such a one?
I don't think so, nor is it worth our energy to think about it. Pre-release
is, after all, pre-release.
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