joeyh, sledge, others,
After working with d-cd a lot over the past week, I think I've come up
with a solution that will allow us to detect if the user is installing
from netinst CD, full CD or DVD.
This would allow us to let apt-setup ask the "use a mirror" question based
on the type of CD.
In
Frans Pop wrote:
> In debian-cd/tools/add_debs add something like (pseudocode):
> if [ $COMPLETE = 1 ]; then
>if [ $DEFBINSIZE -gt 1000]; then
> echo "dvd" > .disk/cd_type
>else
> echo "full_cd" > .disk/cd_type
>fi
> else
>echo "not_complete" > .disk/cd_type
> fi
I gues
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> joeyh, sledge, others,
>
> After working with d-cd a lot over the past week, I think I've come up
> with a solution that will allow us to detect if the user is installing
> from netinst CD, full CD or DVD.
> This would allow us to let apt-setup ask the "us
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> You can install from netinst without networking to get just a base
> system.
That's a point.
> Also don't forget that basically everybody wants to use a
> mirror for security no matter what image type he uses.
That's irrelivant since the mirror use question does not
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> You can install from netinst without networking to get just a base
>> system.
>
> That's a point.
>
>> Also don't forget that basically everybody wants to use a
>> mirror for security no matter what image type he uses.
>
> That
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Ok, slightly different point: When etch R1 comes out people will still
install R0 and want the updates from the mirror.
Which can have a very bad effect:
In October 2005 I installed a sarge-R0-netinst.iso using a nearby mirror
for additional packages. But the secu
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 18:14, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> H. I've been working on a slightly different setup in my devel
> branch - specifying the type of media up-front instead of the size,
> then setting the size from there. Same overall effect, just slightly
> different code. Mine in CONF.s
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