Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 15 Jun 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: >> There is no base tarball anymore. The functionality has been >> superceeded by debootstrap (the package). >> >> FYI, what debootstrap does is simply download (or get from CD) the >> packages in base at runtime. Essentially, it replaces the >> bootdisks.sh script in boot-floppies -- we used to build the base >> system at boot-floppies build time. > >I just looked in dists/woody/main/binary-i386/base, and there are not >enough packages there for a base system. (missing libc among other >important base packages)
Those are in the pool now; you'll need to look in Packages.gz to find their filenames, but generally pool/main/f/foo/foo_*_i386.deb ... debootstrap is really easy to use, though, for those testing it outside the environment of the boot-floppies: # debootstrap woody /chroot/woody http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
