Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Jason Huebel <jhuebel@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] samba on the livecds
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:26:31
Message-Id: 200406291230.28403.jhuebel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] samba on the livecds by Jeffrey Forman
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4 On Tuesday 29 June 2004 12:22 pm, Jeffrey Forman wrote:
5 > I'm only concerned with this bloating the livecd past levels where they
6 > still fit in traditional media without breaking out compression-fu to
7 > get it working. to be honest, do that many people NEED samba support
8 > during the installation of gentoo?
9 >
10 > my 2 brain cells
11 >
12 > -jeff
13 >
14 > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 11:37, John Davis wrote:
15 > > Hey all -
16 > > SMB shares are fun and useful, but our present livecds are unable to
17 > > mount them. We do in fact have smbfs support in the kernel, but like
18 > > nfs, smb needs its userland tool samba to complete the mount (iirc). So,
19 > > are there any major objections to adding samba onto our livecds?
20 > >
21 > > Cheers,
22
23 I'm on the fence on this one. I could see where a person might want to grab
24 the stage tarball off of another machine (that perhaps has a windows or samba
25 share), but other than that I don't see much use for it...
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Re: [gentoo-releng] samba on the livecds Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o>