On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:19:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:26:08PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:38:22AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 03:11:32PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > > > > So I'd say about 30% of machines I see need the whole base install done > > > > > > > from floppies. > > > > > > So how does it help to have a 24MB file on the CD? > > > > > Because the machine down the hall has a CD drive and a floppy? > > > > In which case you could use a script to generate the file, then split > > > > it onto the floppies (you're going to have to split it whether it's > > > > on the cd or not). > > > This assumes the machine down the hall is running Debian, or at least > > > something Unixy. If it's Windows only, you've got a tough time trying to > > > split it by hand, no? > > Uh, so you're saying the machine down the hall is a micros~1 box, but > > since it has a cd drive we can insert the debian cd and then share the > > 24 MB base tarball over the network somehow? > > Actually, I was hypothesising that you'd put the CD in, run split > -b1400000 on base.tgz, copy the split images to the new machine by floppy > (or ZIP or whatever you've got), then reassemble them with cat into > /target somewhere convenient. > > You could reasonably do this with a Unix machine, but probably not so > reasonably if you only had a Windows box. By contrast, if you had floppy > images on the CD, you could do an install in this scenario no matter > what OS was on the machine down the hall. Ah, ok. I thought you, like Dale, were arguing for the 24 MB tarball on the CD-ROM. It turns out that you, like Dale, are actually arguing for the presence of the floppy images on the CD-ROM :) The big problem with this thread is that many of us thought Dale wanted the tarball when he actually wanted the floppy images. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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