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Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> writes: |
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> On 24 June 2011, at 02:02, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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>> I just happened to run into a situation where rsync would have been |
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>> really handy to have on board while booting a minimal install iso. |
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>> I was surprised to find rsync was not amongst the onboard tools. |
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>> Isn't rsync a pretty basic tool to be missing from a bootable install |
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>> disc? |
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> The goal of the minimal install CDs is to make them small. I don't |
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> know how large they are now, but there used to be debate (regularly, |
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> IIRC, on gentoo-dev) about including vi or vim. I think at that time |
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> the minimal CD was down to about 22meg, and there was no way vim would |
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> be included due to its "excessive" size (I think with deps it maybe |
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> ran to as much as 40meg). |
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I grabbed the weekly minimal install and stage3. |
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The install disc was 111mb. I'm not sure what the motivation is |
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about smallness. Is the difference between 111 and say 155 really |
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much of a factor? |
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I see tools like tr cut yes and many others that although useful tools |
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probably aren't that important in an install cd. Especially one that |
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is supposed to be minimal. |
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> I haven't used Gentoo's install CDs in years. I think there may have |
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> even been a period during which they weren't produced or supported. If |
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> I'm installing a Gentoo system I now always use SystemRescueCD. I |
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> would imagine that would have rsync on it. |
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I fully agree and `SystemRescueCD' is exactly what I ended up |
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using.... still failed to get a working gentoo vm though. Why is it |
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such a bitch to install gentoo into a guest vm? |
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