Hi, On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:07:21AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:25:21AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 08:21:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > openssh-client-udeb. I didn't package scp because it's straightforward > > > to do the same thing with ssh and tar, but I suppose I could add it. > > > > openssh-client-udeb is sufficient for me. I only meant some SCP like > > functionality. I really doubt needs to login to another machine from a > > machine running on initrd. So really stripped down ssh shall be enough > > (no X forwarding etc.) > > Sure, although some people (e.g. me :-)) do like to be able to log into > other machines from the middle of a d-i install. You can use that > facility to ask for help, for instance.
That is a very good point. There is no man nor info on d-i process. Hmmm... How come I missed it. I guess I was only looking for ssh-client-udeb. It did not hit me to look under "o". Thanks. > > Just nit pick. It is ssh+cat == scp. 'scp foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:bar' is like > > '<foo ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat - >bar"'. "tar" is a sepatete issue although > > it is an idiom used with ssh to move multiple files. (These files will > > not be concatenated if moved with ssh+tar in the famous way.) > > I beg to differ. scp preserves file modes, for instance, unlike ssh+cat. You got me. I should have said, for my requirements, I can do file transfer simply by ssh+cat. Use of tar looked overkill to me but tar and cat are already parts of busybox. No difference in binary size. > > By the way, speaking of basic functionality of initrd, I do not see > > "screen" command missing in initrd nor in pool/* as udeb. I wonder how > > you are handling some operations which kill the remote terminal > > connection used for the install. > > We don't perform such operations. :-) I do not have Big IBM here either. But someday when I want to boot broken LCD old notebook PC, I may need it. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]