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.
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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