woody base system
IIRC potato had a base system which was a tar, so if you wanted to
setup a new root [ie for nfs mount by a diskless workstation] then you
could expand that archive and you would have a basic system. I think it
was about 15MB [excuse the subjectiveness!]
anyway, i was looking on the woody cd:
root@nomessin:/cdrom# find -size +10240k
./pool/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1_i386.deb
./pool/main/k/kernel-source-2.4.18/kernel-source-2.4.18_2.4.18-5_all.deb
./pool/main/k/kernel-source-2.2.20/kernel-source-2.2.20_2.2.20-5_all.deb
./pool/main/t/tetex-base/tetex-base_1.0.2+20011202-2_all.deb
and i couldnt find it! so i looked a little harder for base related
things and came across three dirs in /pool/main/b but none of them are
big enough to contain the base system
root@nomessin:/cdrom/pool/main/b# du -h base-*
129k base-config
33k base-files
19k base-passwd
hmm using dpkg-deb -c shows that none of these files contain binaries
for apt which i would of thought of as fairly necessary for a base
system. Apt [quite logically] is found in /pool/main/a/apt. So when you
install woody and it says "installing the base system" is it just
using a dpkg running from cd to install debs to a root on /target?
so then, how do i install a minimal system to a dir for a
diskless terminal to use?
I feel so stupid.. I tell many people to go apt-cache search before
posting and i hadnt...
hugh@wiffy:~$ apt-cache search diskless
bootparamd - Boot parameter server.
diskless - Generate NFS file structure for diskless boot.
diskless-image-secure - Files required for secure NFS-Root image.
diskless-image-simple - Files required for simple NFS-Root image.
m68k-vme-tftplilo - Linux kernel TFTP boot loader for m68k VME ...
netboot - Booting of a diskless computer
rarpd - Reverse Address Resolution Protocol daemon
I will post this anyway incase it helps anyone who was thinking of the
same question.
hugh
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