--- Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 09:27:32AM -0700, James Morrison wrote: > > >> The only a bit tricky thing I had to do is download the packages that > >> are one alpha.gnu.org, but required by cross-install, by hand, and put > >> them in partial/ > > > I don't understand what you mean? > > I mean that the most complicated step of the install was figuring out > that the cross-install script wasn't smart enough to go looking on > alpha.gnu.org for the .deb's it doesn't find in the debian archives, > firing up an ftp client, downloading these .deb's and putting them in > the place where cross-install would find them (the "partial/" > subdirectory). Yes, this isn't a complicated step, but was the most > complicated step of the install. Hence, the installation went very > smoothly. > > -- > Lionel
Well, cross-install already handles this in a manual way. cross-install --download "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian"; ===== James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2A co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
