Re: ping on CD would not take up any additional space

2007-03-25 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/24/2007 08:40 AM, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:46:14PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) > wrote: >> ping is not exactly the smallest of the programs (~30K), and I >> really trust d-i team judgement, I was just

Re: ping on CD would not take up any additional space

2007-03-24 Thread Otavio Salvador
Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > .udeb 2k CD blocks: with ping: > busybox-floppy-udeb_1.1.3-4_i386.udeb 23 23 > busybox-udeb_1.1.3-4_i386.udeb59 59 I completely agree with that the size increasement is very,

Re: ping on CD would not take up any additional space

2007-03-24 Thread Richard Atterer
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:46:14PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > ping is not exactly the smallest of the programs (~30K), and I > really trust d-i team judgement, I was just imagining that if it is > possible to have ping (which means that space and other things are not

Re: ping on CD

2007-03-23 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/22/2007 06:49 AM, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > * Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070321 23:19]: >>> So I would like to support the OP's request: Would it be possible to >>> add ping despite the fact that it is not essential? Adding it to >>

Re: ping on CD

2007-03-22 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070321 23:19]: > > So I would like to support the OP's request: Would it be possible to > > add ping despite the fact that it is not essential? Adding it to > > busybox would probably only add a couple kB to the installer's size. > This has been discussed about

Re: ping on CD

2007-03-21 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/2007 07:19 PM, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 23:01, Richard Atterer wrote: >> So I would like to support the OP's request: Would it be possible to >> add ping despite the fact that it is not essential? Adding it to >> busybox w

Re: ping on CD

2007-03-21 Thread Bhasker C V
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 23:19 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 23:01, Richard Atterer wrote: > > So I would like to support the OP's request: Would it be possible to > > add ping despite the fact that it is not essential? Adding it to > > busybox would probably only add a couple k

Re: ping on CD

2007-03-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 23:01, Richard Atterer wrote: > So I would like to support the OP's request: Would it be possible to > add ping despite the fact that it is not essential? Adding it to > busybox would probably only add a couple kB to the installer's size. This has been discussed about 20

Re: ping on CD

2007-03-21 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:35:59PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:51, Bhasker C V wrote: > > Is there a possibility of adding ping to the CD/DVD ? > > As this question really is a FAQ, I've added an entry in the installer's: > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FAQ >

Re: ping on CD

2007-03-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:51, Bhasker C V wrote: > Is there a possibility of adding ping to the CD/DVD ? As this question really is a FAQ, I've added an entry in the installer's: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FAQ It also explains _how_ wget can be used. Cheers, FJP pgpUrOhJar4CD.p

Re: ping on CD

2007-03-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:51, Bhasker C V wrote: > I downloaded etch DVDs and found that the console at Alt+F2 gives a > shell which does not have ping utility which comes handy many places. > Is there a possibility of adding ping to the CD/DVD ? Ping has been left out of the installer on pur

ping on CD

2007-03-21 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi all, I do not know the exact procedure for sumitting requests. So iam using this list. I downloaded etch DVDs and found that the console at Alt+F2 gives a shell which does not have ping utility which comes handy many places. Is there a possibility of adding ping to the CD/DVD ? -- Bhasker C