On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 04:19:51PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Honestly, the best approach here is to hack debootstrap, say, with a > special arg, so that instead of building base, it constructs enough of > a local mirror so that you could install base. Of course, the > packages in base are going to vary from arch to arch, and most of the > packages are arch-dependant.... this is my thought, have debootstrap download all the packages it needs into a flat directory, then you just tar up that directory. put it on a hard disk and unpack it in /target/var/cache/apt/archives. telling debootstrap there that it should skip the download part and just start installing as if it had just finished the download. > Anyhow, assuming you had a subset of a debian archive, enough to get > base, and you can get that via http, nfs, or ftp, if you had that, why > is that less convenient to install from the actual packages rather > than from a big fat tarball? because you can get the tarball to the machine via a hard disk rather easily, and if the only filesystem the target machine has at the moment is a crippled one tarball is the only way. we are getting a mail or two on debian-powerpc from people who configure a dual boot system, but have dsl with that horrible pppoe garbage. since the boot-floppies don't support that they can't install base. under potato they would download the base.tgz ahead of time and keep it on CrippledFileSystem. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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