Re: Bug#109826: base floppy images on the Debian CD
Le Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:03:56PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo écrivait: I think split floppy images of base make the most sense. It seems that we all agree on this point. Split floppy 1.44k images of base would cover the case where someone wants to install on a machine that has only floppy and no CD and no network access. Debian-CD folks, assume we can set aside a well-known location in the woody distribution archive for base images, built using debootstrap and splitting into 1.44k sized chunks, would you be willing to add this to CD#1 ? I think we expect that to be around 24MB in total space consumed. Of course I can ... but do you really think someone is going to install the base system with 16 floppies ? I don't think so. I thought the whole point of the base system tarball was for people who wanted to setup rapidly a nfsroot. Splitting it is pointless for them. BTW, the complete disks-i386/current directory is always automatically included on CD1 so I have no modifications to do to close this bug. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguer sans se fatiguer à chercher : http://www.deenoo.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#109826: base floppy images on the Debian CD
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:34:37AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Of course I can ... but do you really think someone is going to install the base system with 16 floppies ? I don't think so. I thought the whole point of the base system tarball was for people who wanted to setup rapidly a nfsroot. Splitting it is pointless for them. for the bazillionth time now, basedebs.tgz is NOT NOT NOT a root filesystem. its a tarball of a bunch of .deb files. as for installing via floppies, some people still seem to want to do it that way. BTW, the complete disks-i386/current directory is always automatically included on CD1 so I have no modifications to do to close this bug. we will have to put basedebs.tgz somewhere else then to prevent it from going on the CDs then. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature
Re: Bug#109826: base floppy images on the Debian CD
#include hallo.h Ethan Benson wrote on Fri Aug 24, 2001 um 04:49:19AM: for the bazillionth time now, basedebs.tgz is NOT NOT NOT a root filesystem. its a tarball of a bunch of .deb files. Exactly. What is the reason for having basedebs.tgz? We cannot have the tarball INSTEAD of the deb files (or can we?) Who needs basedebs.tgz? We could put DOS versions of tar and gzip on the CD plus a BATch file, so people can make their own basedebs.tgz if they want. Puting the same data in different forms is wastage of disc space. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- ...mit VIM kein Problem! :wq PGP signature
Re: Bug#109826: base floppy images on the Debian CD
Hoping that this will not add any more heat to this thread. At present the Hurd CD installation requires the installation of a tarball. While Marcus Brinkmann is working on Hurd udeb's these are probably some time away. What I would be looking for is a way to install a tarball within the Debian installer which would not require any significant hacking. I also have good reason to suspect that consultants and the like produce specialised tarballs for customised installations. These people would need tools to produce such tarballs. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
