Re: d-i and netcat

2004-04-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:10:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > It'd be a handy way to get logs off my floppy-challenged boxes. I've > > also needed to test the network, which is a bit challenging without even > > ping. I was looking for some such tool and nc was the cheap

Re: d-i and netcat

2004-04-08 Thread Joey Hess
Stephen R Marenka wrote: > It'd be a handy way to get logs off my floppy-challenged boxes. I've > also needed to test the network, which is a bit challenging without even > ping. I was looking for some such tool and nc was the cheapest. I use wget for network testing, but I would also like a way t

Re: d-i and netcat

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:52:22AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > I got curious about how much adding netcat to busybox on d-i would > > cost us. If I did everything right, on i386 it doesn't cost anything (I > > don't know, two binaries the same size -- only one with n

Re: d-i and netcat

2004-04-07 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Stephen R Marenka wrote: > I got curious about how much adding netcat to busybox on d-i would > cost us. If I did everything right, on i386 it doesn't cost anything (I > don't know, two binaries the same size -- only one with nc, go figure). > On m68k it costs an additional 1552 bytes. > > I'd su