On Monday 22 August 2005 11.25, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: [ the 'must have a working installer' requirement ]
> > > Trivial. debootstrap does that. > > > > Debootstrap is not an installer, in very much the same way that tar > > isn't, either. > > They both are. They can install debian, so it's an installer. This is getting silly. I think nobody debates the fact that some CPUs never had any PC-style machines made and are targetted at the embedded market - yet a Debian port may still make sense. So can we just rephrase the 'working installer' bit and call it 'well-documented, working and supported (by Debian's documentation etc.) installation method'? If a populer CPU evaluation board ships on a PCI card, installing Debian on that board using some kind of firmware-uploader from a host computer is the sensible thing to do - the important things are - that the end result is a Debian system (i.e. working package management) - that I can sensibly bootstrap such a system from source in the Debian archive (not 'somebody has hand-crafted a firmware image for that board, so take that and go from there'). cheers -- vbi -- this email is protected by a digital signature: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg
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