Re: RFC: very large, redundant packages
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 03:42:40PM -0700, Ian Eure wrote:
> On Thursday 25 April 2002 03:21 pm, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Doesn't sound very appetizing, does it? But read on...
> >
> > I am currently maintaining the user-mode-linux Debian packages. As new
> > users quickly discover, most of the interesting things that can be done
> > with UML require a root filesystem image to boot from. The UML home
> > page[0] provides some of these, and I wrote a simple tool[1] for building
> > Debian images noninteractively. Unfortunately, this cannot be done without
> > manual configuration, which is nontrivial for those new to UML.
> >
> Can you elaborate on the manual configuration? It seems like the problem
> becomes moot if your tool can build a it's image noninteractively.
It requires an IP address for the UML system so that it can download
packages.
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- mdz
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