Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-build

[320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)]

Andreas Schweitzer wrote:

> > > 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
>

Hmm, for this case we need a soultion that mounts the cd-boot-image from another
partition or via nfs/dhcp instead of the cd because it requires around 16MB at the
moment.

achim~

>
> Cheers
> Andreas
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