IIRC potato had a base system which was a tar, so if you wanted to setup a new root [ie for nfs mount by a diskless workstation] then you could expand that archive and you would have a basic system. I think it was about 15MB [excuse the subjectiveness!]
anyway, i was looking on the woody cd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cdrom# find -size +10240k ./pool/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1_i386.deb ./pool/main/k/kernel-source-2.4.18/kernel-source-2.4.18_2.4.18-5_all.deb ./pool/main/k/kernel-source-2.2.20/kernel-source-2.2.20_2.2.20-5_all.deb ./pool/main/t/tetex-base/tetex-base_1.0.2+20011202-2_all.deb and i couldnt find it! so i looked a little harder for base related things and came across three dirs in /pool/main/b but none of them are big enough to contain the base system [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cdrom/pool/main/b# du -h base-* 129k base-config 33k base-files 19k base-passwd hmm using dpkg-deb -c shows that none of these files contain binaries for apt which i would of thought of as fairly necessary for a base system. Apt [quite logically] is found in /pool/main/a/apt. So when you install woody and it says "installing the base system" is it just using a dpkg running from cd to install debs to a root on /target? so then, how do i install a minimal system to a dir for a diskless terminal to use? I feel so stupid.. I tell many people to go apt-cache search before posting and i hadnt... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search diskless bootparamd - Boot parameter server. diskless - Generate NFS file structure for diskless boot. diskless-image-secure - Files required for secure NFS-Root image. diskless-image-simple - Files required for simple NFS-Root image. m68k-vme-tftplilo - Linux kernel TFTP boot loader for m68k VME ... netboot - Booting of a diskless computer rarpd - Reverse Address Resolution Protocol daemon I will post this anyway incase it helps anyone who was thinking of the same question. hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
