Re: Emdebian

[Bernhard Fischer <rep.nop@aon.at>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 01:18:21PM -0600, Quantum Scientific wrote:

>I'm surprised to discover the web CVS for EmDebian on Sourceforge, but there's 
>no command to DL in the Wiki.  And once this is downloaded, maybe the next 

You can co the source from sourceforge like any other projects hosted
there; see http://sf.net/cvs/?group_id=5052

>step is Snarf 'n' Pick, I'm not sure.

depends. Please see (e.g.)
http://www.emdebian.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RootFileSystem?#How_large_can_I_let_my_system_be
>
>Seems to me that at this point I should use apt-get, but which packages to 
>get, and where?  Certainly not the Debian packages, as they'll be full-blown.  

If for some reason you really would want to use full packages
(not selectively like with snp), i'd recommend waldi's excellent
cdebootstrap.
For me, {c,}debootstrap'ed images are too large, last time i looked. YMMV.

>But this is the only way I know to get the kernel source.