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From: Andreas Schweitzer <andy@×××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-build
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:03:30
Message-Id: 20010127150420.B45222@bender.physast.uga.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-build by 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
1 > > And it will be overwritten ?
2 >
3 > Yes because build.tbz2 contains reduced to a minimum required and statically
4 > linked versions of packages .
5
6 OK - I got it ! :-)
7 Sounds right.
8
9 > > Alternatively, include wget and rsync, and the sources can
10 > > be grabbed from the net (if somebody wants to get them from there).
11 >
12 > wget is on the boot-cd image, rsync not yes. All the required binaries and all
13 > kernel-network/nfs modules to
14 > set-up a network enviroment are on the bootcd-image. So it should not be to
15 > difficult to add that option too.
16
17 I'm just thinking of people like me, who don't have a CD burner, but
18 instead a fast internet connection. So I prefer to do network
19 installs. Then I only need to download something like
20 (generally speaking) boot floppies and some sort of images.
21 In this case I would think build.tbz2
22
23 Cheers
24 Andreas
25
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Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-build 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)