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Re: Still no base tarball



On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:57:11PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
> 
> The only thing is it may violate POLA for the typical sysadmin.  If they
> get used to basedebs installs without CD, when they DO use the CD, it'd be
> least astonishing to find it somewhere on the CD.  The CDs already have
> POLA cruft: when's the last time FIPS had a sane use?  AFAICT, it actually
> pukes on VFAT and NTFS.  But I doubt that a FIPS-less CD would be accepted
> without some serious pain and suffering.  Is it that hard to include
> basedebs.tgz for similar purposes?  More importantly, isn't the point of a
> CD install to get a system up that can spawn another installation?  How
> can you do that without basedebs.tgz?

basedebs.tgz != base2_2.tgz, the contents is NOT a root filesystem.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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