Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2001-06-09 Severity: wishlist Tags: woody When dbootstrap gets to the "Install the Base System" stage i thas a static lists of distrubutions that it tells you to choose from. However, in many cases (CD install) they will not all be available. Currently if bootargs.isquiet we default to installing stable, but that is still a bit clumbsy. Here is a script form Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> that dynamically determs dists over the network, something similar oculd be uesd on a CD, maybe. I don't really know what the cleanest solution is at the moment. You can probably determine this automatically nowadays. If you've got wget and a http mirror, something like: ------ #!/bin/sh SUITES="stable testing unstable" MIRROR="http://ftp.debian.org/debian" rm -f release for s in $SUITES; do wget -O release $MIRROR/dists/$s/Release >/dev/null 2>&1 if [ ! -s release ]; then continue; fi codename=`cat release | sed -n 's/^Codename: //p'` status=`cat release | sed -n 's/^Suite: //p'` desc=`cat release | sed -n 's/^Description: //p'` rm -f release echo $s $codename $status $desc done ------ will tell you: ] stable potato stable Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r2 ] testing woody testing Debian Testing distribution - Not Released ] unstable sid unstable Debian Unstable - Not Released which gives you what path on the ftp site (dists/$1) will get you which distribution of Debian ($2 = codename, $3 = status), and will give you a little description too. Cheers, aj -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux meow 2.4.4 #1 Thu May 31 11:41:44 PDT 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]