Re: Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

2004-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 12:11:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 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.ta

Re: Re: Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

2004-12-13 Thread cga2001
> > You really don't need the latest version of gcc in order to install > Sarge, > no matter what install technique you use. All the stuff that you need to > install the OS is already compiled in a self consistent way. Once you > have > Sarge installed, you get the latest gcc for further work,

Re: Re: Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

2004-12-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 01:55:16AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I looked at my copy of debinst rc2 CD. It has deb package of wget and > > udeb package of debootstrap on it in directory named pool. I believe > > udeb is a compact and stripped down version of a regular deb, so it > > p

Re: Re: Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

2004-12-12 Thread cga2001
> > I looked at my copy of debinst rc2 CD. It has deb package of wget and > udeb package of debootstrap on it in directory named pool. I believe > udeb is a compact and stripped down version of a regular deb, so it > probably has all you need for chroot, plus a lot of stuff that you > might not n

Re: Re: Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

2004-12-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:07:52PM -0500, cga wrote: > The new net install system is currently the best Debian has for install > over small pipes. If you can get the iso image of net install downloaded > and burnt to CD, you can get the rest of the stuff you need by using it. > Even if you can't ge

Re: Re: Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

2004-12-12 Thread cga
The new net install system is currently the best Debian has for install over small pipes. If you can get the iso image of net install downloaded and burnt to CD, you can get the rest of the stuff you need by using it. Even if you can't get it downloaded over your pipe, I recommend that you try to p

Re: Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

2004-12-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 12:11:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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. > > > > Ther

Re: Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

2004-12-11 Thread cga2001
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

Re: Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

2004-12-08 Thread cga2001
> > ... 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.i

Re: Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

2004-12-08 Thread Joey Hess
[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

Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

2004-12-07 Thread cga2001
I am in the process of switching from RedHat to Debian and I installed woody in a chrooted environment environment using debootstrap and the basedebs.tar base system as advertised in section 3. of the woody Installation Guide. I searched the "testing" repository (which I understand is the soon-to-b