First release of Jigsaw Download - distributed download & on-the-fly assembly of CD images

2001-06-17 Thread Richard Atterer
Hello all, Yes, it finally happened! Last December, after a discussion on this list about a new CD download concept, I went off and started coding. Somehow, the program became much bigger than I expected, but right now, at 7400 lines of code, it is becoming usable, so I'm releasing it for the fi

Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

2001-06-17 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > There is no base tarball anymore. The functionality has been > superceeded by debootstrap (the package). FYI, what debootstrap does > is simply download (or get from CD) the packages in base at runtime. On a side note: did anybody try the boot disks on ftp.debian.org for woody and debia

Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

2001-06-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:37:00PM +0200, Attila Nagy écrivait: > On a side note: did anybody try the boot disks on ftp.debian.org for woody > and debian-cd together? Yes, and looks like it worked. With cvs debian-cd and boot disks 2.3.5. Santiago Garcia Mantinan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did the test.

Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

2001-06-17 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > Yes, and looks like it worked. With cvs debian-cd and boot disks > 2.3.5. Santiago Garcia Mantinan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did the test. AFAIK, I made the test with 2.3.4 and the latest debian-cd at that time, so I will test again... > > The production is an uninstallable (from the menu at

Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

2001-06-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:24:27AM +0200, Attila Nagy écrivait: > AFAIK, I made the test with 2.3.4 and the latest debian-cd at that time, > so I will test again... > > > > The production is an uninstallable (from the menu at least) CD set... > > What is exactly your problem ? > Finding the addus

Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

2001-06-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:33:32AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Tell me the exact command to make a chroot for an ARM from my i386. ssh some-arm-box debootstrap woody /nfs/i386/arm-chroot # :) Actually, you could maybe do something like: * setup an NFS root that boots to the arm b-f'

Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

2001-06-17 Thread Timshel Knoll
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:11:17PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:33:32AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Tell me the exact command to make a chroot for an ARM from my i386. > > ssh some-arm-box debootstrap woody /nfs/i386/arm-chroot # :) > > Actually, you could maybe

Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

2001-06-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:59:38PM +1000, Timshel Knoll wrote: > Isn't `debootstrap --arch arm ' what you're > looking for? What makes you think that will ever have any chance at all of working, let alone works now? The --arch argument is there so (a) I can get rid of the stupid /usr/lib/deboot

Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

2001-06-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian's base*.tar is the *only* solution I know of for this that supports > the variety of platforms I am interested in, I know other people do the > same thing. This would be a very unfortunate loss to the people doing > embedded work with linux. Y