Re: Where is the base tarball?

2001-06-02 Thread Anthony Towns
(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

Re: Where is the base tarball?

2001-05-24 Thread Ethan Benson
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

Where is the base tarball?

2001-04-27 Thread Attila Nagy
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

Re: Where is the base tarball?

2001-04-27 Thread Attila Nagy
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

Re: Where is the base tarball?

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
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