On 6 Nov 2001, at 4:03, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 03:03:28AM +0100, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to get woody > without installing potato first. > What files do I need in > addition to the floppies? > Esp, I can't find any base*.tgz > in the woody tree. > Am I blind, or is it no longer needed? > > base*.tgz is no longer needed. The boot-floppies build the > base system using a program called debootstrap instead.
Ah yes. And from what? Sorry, maybe I don't see the obvious -- but even in that case, please give me a hint. Here's what I did so far, if nothing else, at least it may make you smile... The setup requires me to provide some source in order to install the base system, so the content of the floppies obviously won't suffice. My current approach to provide the files was to "mirror" them on a local machine and export them via nfs. Everytime the installation routine complained about a file it needed, I went to get it. /dists/woody/Release, /dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages ... Now, the installation routine tells me that it is "Calling debootstrap", together with a progress bar wich fills within a fraction of a second. Then nothing happens for about half a minute, eventually it aborts with "couldn't download adduser". I then started looking for where "adduser" might come from, and that's how I eventually came to miss the base*.tgz file. Now I'm told it is no longer needed -- but if I read the signs right, I still need the files it contained, even if they're no longer rolled up into a single tgz. I chose this approach because I thought it might actually work faster than installing potato from CD first and then upgrading to woody. <wrinkled smile> Well, that's still an option... but even if I give up now, I'd like to know what I did wrong. cu, Schnobs
