> On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:54:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:53:15PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > i tend to think CD installation is the only possible option in these > > > circumstances, unfortunatly debootstrap copies files from the CD to > > > /var/cache instead of just using them directly. (that could and > > > should be fixed). > > > > Actually, the CD isn't accessible from within the chroot, so the .debs > > aren't either unless they're copied in advance. > > is there any reason we could not simply mount the CD on /target/cdrom > instead of /instmnt? or will that bork things up when base-files is > extracted? even if thats so we could just mount it on /target/instmnt > and remove that directory as part of configure-base.c.
Sounds reasonable to me (and much better than mount --bind). Until all references are cleaned we could softlink /target/instmnt to /instmnt? That's a list of all source files related to it: utilities/dbootstrap/bootconfig.c utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c utilities/dbootstrap/extract_kernel.c Kind regards, Jens -- ruehmkorf at informatik dot uni hyphen koeln dot de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
