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Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)



On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:

> > 1.  ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it
> >     difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually impossible
> >     if you don't have your kernel available on an nfs mount or floppy
> >     disk.
> 
> Don't know what you mean.  I used the original rex disks to install and I 
> was able to install the whole system by dpkg-ftp, and I was able to ftp 
> to any machine I wanted to.

/usr/bin/ftp, the command line ftp client.  not dpkg-ftp.

i don't use dpkg-ftp at all. no need to, i mirror debian and it's much
more convenient to nfs mount my debian archive onto the build system to do
the install.

craig


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