Re: Bug#109826: base floppy images on the Debian CD

2001-08-24 Thread Philip Charles
Hoping that this will not add any more heat to this thread. At present the Hurd CD installation requires the installation of a tarball. While Marcus Brinkmann is working on Hurd udeb's these are probably some time away. What I would be looking for is a way to install a tarball within the Debian

Re: Bug#109826: base floppy images on the Debian CD

2001-08-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Ethan Benson wrote on Fri Aug 24, 2001 um 04:49:19AM: > for the bazillionth time now, basedebs.tgz is NOT NOT NOT a root > filesystem. its a tarball of a bunch of .deb files. Exactly. What is the reason for having basedebs.tgz? We cannot have the tarball INSTEAD of the deb files (or

Re: Bug#109826: base floppy images on the Debian CD

2001-08-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:34:37AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Of course I can ... but do you really think someone is going to install > the base system with 16 floppies ? I don't think so. I thought the > whole point of the base system tarball was for people who wanted to setup > rapidly a n

Re: Bug#109826: base floppy images on the Debian CD

2001-08-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:03:56PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo écrivait: > I think split floppy images of base make the most sense. It seems > that we all agree on this point. > > Split floppy 1.44k images of base would cover the case where someone > wants to install on a machine that has only floppy a