On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 12:16:44PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > sön 2003-03-30 klockan 11.49 skrev Alastair McKinstry: > > chroot is used in a bunch of code - the lilo, grub code etc install lilo > > on /target then run chroot /target /sbin/lilo > > similarly for a lot of prebaseconfig stuff. It could be removed from the > > initial floppy, however. > > Exactly, that'd be in the stage1 udeb (stage0 being everything up until > anna runs, stage1 being the rest of d-i and stage2 being base-config, in > my terminology) > > > chroot and telnet are useful for fixing problems with net: eg config > > issues on the server - telnet in (ssh would be better, but too big) and > > solve them, (eg adding an address to a bootp server), then proceed. > > Uh. I really don't see what you would need to fix with telnet on a net > floppy that doesn't require the network to be up... > > > telnetd, I can't think of why thats there; was someone planning on doing > > installs remotely via telnetting into the client from the server ???
I think Alastair answered this in another thread; telnet is how s390 installs are performed. -- http://Www.TruthAboutWar.org Chris Tillman - Linux Rox - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
