On 16 Jun 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Anyhow, assuming you had a subset of a debian archive, enough to get > base, and you can get that via http, nfs, or ftp, if you had that, why > is that less convenient to install from the actual packages rather > than from a big fat tarball?
I'm not installing. I have no desire to 'install' debian in the traditional sense. I need to NFS-Root boot embedded targets into a shell-like environment. Debian's base*.tar is the *only* solution I know of for this that supports the variety of platforms I am interested in, I know other people do the same thing. This would be a very unfortunate loss to the people doing embedded work with linux. Jason
