On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:09:33PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On 15 Jun 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > There is no base tarball anymore. The functionality has been > > superceeded by debootstrap (the package). > > Hrm. This is midely annoying to say the least :< > > The base tarball is *very* useful for NFS root booting other > architectures which I do alot, particularly when the NFS serving box is > not a debian box. It is very nice to be able to say 'fetch this tar, > unpack it, setup NFS and boot this kernel'. > > I'm not sure how you can automate that process without haxoring the .debs > since they can't really have their post insts run. It would be nice if > there is possible solution, particularly if said solution could run on > non-Debian unix's..
Maybe debootstrap could be hacked to support this? I'm not sure how you would create a fully installed system in a chroot on a different arch though. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
