On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 09:58:04PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:19:35 +0000, Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 05:56:43PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > >> That was what we are talking about, they simply would not be on the > >> boot floppies but would be packaged seperately to advoid > >> confusion. Ie we have 2 cdrom methods, 2 nfs methods, 4 'disk' > >> methods, 3 ftp and 2 http ! > > > The base system currently includes dpkg, dpkg-mountable, > > dpkg-multicd and apt. > > > dpkg provides cdrom, nfs, harddisk, mounted and floppy > > dpkg-mountable provides mountable dpkg-multicd provides multi_cd, > > multi_nfs and multi_mount > > Then where do ftp, http, and ??? come from?
On boot-floppies 2.1.x only apt provides those. (On 2.0.x there was dpkg-ftp). > > I guess dpkg-mountable may be removed from the base system. > > Based on current reality (i.e., I *hope* that redundant, useless > methods are removed, to lower user hesitation, confusion, and wrong > choices), and based on text from Steve McIntyre (thank you!!) I have > included below the current text about the acquisition methods from the > dselect-beginner document in the boot floppies. > > Please review this text and give me hints. More information is needed! > > -- > .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> > > 2.1. ``Access'' > ---------------- > > Here's the access screen: > dselect - list of access methods > Abbrev. Description > cdrom Install from a CD-ROM. > * multi_cd Install from a CD-ROM set. > nfs Install from an NFS server (not yet mounted). > multi_nfs Install from an NFS server (using the CD-ROM set) (not yet > mounted). > harddisk Install from a hard disk partition (not yet mounted). > mounted Install from a filesystem which is already mounted. > multi_mount Install from a mounted partition with changing contents. > mountable Install from a partition named in fstab > floppy Install from a pile of floppy disks. > ftp Install using ftp. > http Install using http:, ftp:, and file: URLs. > apt APT Acquisition [file,http,ftp] ftp and http are not on the current (2.1.5) base system. May I add them (again)? -- Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
