On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:38:25 -0500, "Joey Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > understand is the soon-to-be official "sarge" release..) and I could not > > find the basedbs.tar file. > > There's no such animal for sarge. > > > I also noticed that the section "Installing > > Debian GNU/linux from a UNIX/linux System" in the "testing" Installation > > Guide does not exist. > > Sure it does. http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apcs04.html > > -- > see shy jo
I have an additional question. It appears that debootstrap uses wget. I believe that wget is able to recover from an interrupted download - doesn't download again the files that were downloaded during a prior run - unless their timestamps were modified on the server.. a bit like "make" works regarding compiles. I was wondering if this is also the case with debootstrap? The reason I'm asking is that the sarge base system is rumored to be some 100Meg+ and this should take some 10-12 hours trickling down my rather flimsy dialup pipe.. If not, is there a way I can concurrently save the result of the download some place in case I mess the subsequent install... so as to avoid running a second (3rd.. 4th.. etc.) download.. should I need to start over... Or should I make a full backup of my root/base filesystem immediately after running debootstrap? Only doc I've read is the rather terse debootstrap man page and would gladly read other docs if available.. Or.. finally.. is there a method that's better adapted to dialup than "debootstrap --arch i386 sarge /mnt/deb.... http://debian.org/.. etc" when attempting to download sarge from the mirrors.. where I could download the packages one at a time for instance? NB. Due to the volume on this list and my limited quotas.. I had to unsubscribe. Is there any place I can view your replies - if any..?? Or would you be so kind as to cc: me on this..?? <cga2001.at.eml.dot.cc> Thanks. cga -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
