Re: tech proposal to make manoj somewhat happy.
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 03:48:32PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> Martin Schulze <joey@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE> wrote:
> > Believe it or not, you're not the only one who counts. :-)
> ...
> > third machine can mount /pub not mount /pub/debian
>
> How hard can it be to mirror the base tgz file?
>
> I could write or find a tiny ftp client[*], to fit on the rescue disk
> but if it's not needed, what's the point? [And before people who
> haven't looked into this start jumping up and down: note that there's
> no ppp before the base tgz file (or equivalent) is installed.]
>
> --
> Raul
>
> [*] ftp clients can be very trivial, as this script demonstrates.
> [Note that this won't work on the rescue disk, but a variant translated
> into c might]:
Last time that issue appeared on debian-devel someone suggested using
netcat. I'm not sure I will use it or write my own but I plan to add FTP
(and/or HTTP) support to slink boot-floppies.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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