Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-build

[Andreas Schweitzer <andy@physast.uga.edu>]

> > And it will be overwritten ?
> 
> Yes because build.tbz2 contains reduced to a minimum required and statically
> linked versions of packages .

OK - I got it ! :-)
Sounds right.

> > Alternatively, include wget and rsync, and the sources can
> > be grabbed from the net (if somebody wants to get them from there).
> 
> wget is on the boot-cd image, rsync not yes. All the required binaries and all
> kernel-network/nfs modules to
> set-up a network enviroment are on the bootcd-image. So it should not be to
> difficult to add that option too.

I'm just thinking of people like me, who don't have a CD burner, but
instead a fast internet connection. So I prefer to do network
installs. Then I only need to download something like
(generally speaking) boot floppies and some sort of images.
In this case I would think build.tbz2

Cheers
Andreas

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