Re: net image full
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 12:16:44PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> sön 2003-03-30 klockan 11.49 skrev Alastair McKinstry:
> > chroot is used in a bunch of code - the lilo, grub code etc install lilo
> > on /target then run chroot /target /sbin/lilo
> > similarly for a lot of prebaseconfig stuff. It could be removed from the
> > initial floppy, however.
>
> Exactly, that'd be in the stage1 udeb (stage0 being everything up until
> anna runs, stage1 being the rest of d-i and stage2 being base-config, in
> my terminology)
>
> > chroot and telnet are useful for fixing problems with net: eg config
> > issues on the server - telnet in (ssh would be better, but too big) and
> > solve them, (eg adding an address to a bootp server), then proceed.
>
> Uh. I really don't see what you would need to fix with telnet on a net
> floppy that doesn't require the network to be up...
>
> > telnetd, I can't think of why thats there; was someone planning on doing
> > installs remotely via telnetting into the client from the server ???
I think Alastair answered this in another thread; telnet is how
s390 installs are performed.
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