Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Jeffrey Forman <jforman@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Cc: zhen@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] samba on the livecds
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:22:49
Message-Id: 1088529761.22815.51.camel@sixthstreet.formanonline.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-releng] samba on the livecds by John Davis
1 I'm only concerned with this bloating the livecd past levels where they
2 still fit in traditional media without breaking out compression-fu to
3 get it working. to be honest, do that many people NEED samba support
4 during the installation of gentoo?
5
6 my 2 brain cells
7
8 -jeff
9
10 On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 11:37, John Davis wrote:
11 > Hey all -
12 > SMB shares are fun and useful, but our present livecds are unable to
13 > mount them. We do in fact have smbfs support in the kernel, but like
14 > nfs, smb needs its userland tool samba to complete the mount (iirc). So,
15 > are there any major objections to adding samba onto our livecds?
16 >
17 > Cheers,
18 --
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22 Jeffrey Forman
23 Gentoo Infrastructure
24 Gentoo Release Engin.
25 jforman@g.o
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Re: [gentoo-releng] samba on the livecds Jason Huebel <jhuebel@g.o>