On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:12:20PM +0300, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, 2014-09-21 at 21:46 +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
[snip]
Anyone that can deal with those issues after installing a tarball should
have no trouble at all running {c}debootstrap themselves.
What if
Hi,
On Sun, 2014-09-21 at 21:46 +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
[snip]
Anyone that can deal with those issues after installing a tarball should
have no trouble at all running {c}debootstrap themselves.
What if {c}debootstrap isn't available in their environment? That's
specifically the case I was
Package: cdimage.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Installing Debian when debootstrap isn't available can be extremely
inconvenient, because the only alternative is the installer, which is:
- slow
- requires booting the media
- primarily aimed for stable
- inflexible and difficult to customize and/or
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 09:57:05PM +0300, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote:
Package: cdimage.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Installing Debian when debootstrap isn't available can be extremely
inconvenient, because the only alternative is the installer, which is:
- slow
- requires booting the media
Hi Eduard,
Given that you say, quite rightly, that it's pretty easy to generate
tarballs:
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu edg...@gmail.com writes:
...
Generating them can be quite straightforward, and doesn't even require
root privileges:
$ cdebootstrap --foreign --arch=ARCH [...]
$ tar [...]
I'd
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