On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 06:36:11PM -0500, Daniel Clark wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:42:27PM -0500, Daniel Clark wrote: > >> Also if someone needs a DVD burned/mailed to them because they are > >> behind a really slow connection we can arrange that (you would of course > >> need to transfer to a USB stick you own). > > > > I haven't looked into producing iso images out of my apt archive, but it > > shouldn't be hard to do by playing a bit with debian-cd scripts. > > > > Note that an USB stick can be converted into an install system by simply > > copiing an ISO image that contains a package archive to its root directory. > > > > BUT the netboot initrd won't use it. A separate build of D-I will be > > needed. > > I can make one of those without too much effort though. Maybe I can have a > > look tomorrow. > > I was thinking more they would have both the files they need to boot > from, and could just serve the other files via their local network from > the DVD. Just as a short-term hackish thing. Of course your way sounds > much better longer term :)
I don't think this would be necessary. The debian-cd scripts are easy to use, I just didn't find the time to do it. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
