Re: Where is the base tarball?
(Huh. I didn't send this mail? That explains why I don't have a patch yet, I guess...) On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:20:06PM +, Philip Charles wrote: If you aren't able to make a native Hurd installer (no cfdisk, kernel can't be booted before the system's installed on the hdd (doesn't fit on a floppy?)), then you'll want to use debootstrap to build a chroot on a Hurd system, tar that up, and hack boot-floppies to unpack that and fiddle around with it instead of calling debootstrap. We have no partitioning tools (amongst other things) for the Hurd, so this is the way forward in the meantime. Panic over. Please get someone with a Hurd system to work out what packages need to be in Hurd required/base; and what special casing has to happen. Most of that can probably be determined from your existing b-f's, I'd guess. Send a patch :) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is the base tarball?
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:20:54AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Nope, you're right. But there's really no going back now. Perhaps someone could work through a patch to debootstrap that would be able to use a dir with all the packages smooshed flat there? that won't handle the broken filenames, or the complete unreasonablness of asking users to sift through /debian/pool/main/* trying to figure out what they need to download. IMO debootstrap needs to support a tarball method where it fetches debs out of a tarball. but if not then i guess we will have to accept that debian can be installed only with direct internet access or via CDROM. not via hard disk. i would think it should not be hard to modify debootstrap to build a tarball of the debs it wants in order to make a sortof base2_3.tar (except containing .debs instead of a root filesystem). on the other end of the process it shouldn't be hard for it to use tar to extract the file it wants instead of wgetting it from http or whatever it does. again ignore me if i am missing something obvious again. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature
Where is the base tarball?
Hello, I tried to build a Debian woody boot floppy set with the latest code from CVS and I have a problem. The is no base*.bin and the base tarball is also missing at the end of the process. This is the case with the set on the debian mirrors too, so I wonder what the problem is. The Debian woody can be installed only from network? :) Please somebody enlighten me about this, because I want to produce a bootable *and* installable woody CD set, but without base tarball it is very hard to do... ps: please cc me your message on reply, because I am not on the list. Thanks. Oh, and there are also some problems with boot-floppies and sid cooperation. It seems that debiandoc-sgml has some changed syntaxes which the code can't handle. -- Attila Nagye-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Budapest Polytechnic (BMF.HU) @work: +361 210 1415 (194) H-1084 Budapest, Tavaszmezo u. 15-17. cell.: +3630 306 6758 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is the base tarball?
Hello, You can visit http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0104/msg00846.html to read a message I sent to the list after testing the installation of a cd-set with cvs version of boot-floppies. Great. BTW, I still don't understand why the woody/main/disks-i386 directory contains a boot floppy which is unusable. What we are doing at our site (ceu.fi.udc.es gpul.org) is build two cd sets, one with the broken floppies and other one with potato floppies, so that they can install and then upgrade, like they had been doing before, of course we only burn the woody-bootingpotato version of the cds to the people, the others... well, some time in the future. What is the ETA for releasing woody? :) -- Attila Nagye-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Budapest Polytechnic (BMF.HU) @work: +361 210 1415 (194) H-1084 Budapest, Tavaszmezo u. 15-17. cell.: +3630 306 6758 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is the base tarball?
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:03:51AM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: The woody boot-floppies use debootstrap, which builds the base system on the fly from individual packages. These packages can be available locally (via a hard drive, CDROM, etc.) or over the network. wouldn't this be a problem for people who need to download the packages first and put them on a dos or macos partition for the base install? (this will be quite inconvenient now) these OSes have crippled filesystems which will probably end up destroying some of the filenames if this is done. the base.tgz tarball has always nicely worked around this problem. of course i may be missing something, feel free to point it out. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature
