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Re: Woody FTP Install?!



On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:58:26PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote:
> @ 12:55:03 PM on 11/25/2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Hmm? There should be no problem with FTP. What exactly are you
> > looking for?
> 
> In order to do an FTP install for woody, I need the baseX.tgz or the
> baseX.bin files. Only the drivers, root, and rescue images are
> available (no base install files):

base*.tgz files are no longer used for woody. Instead, base is
downloaded on the fly using a tool called debootstrap.

If you need to download the files somewhere else, search the list
archives for 'basedebs.tgz'. I understand this will be available in the
FTP archive by the time woody's released.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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