Re: [gentoo-releng] samba on the livecds

[Jason Huebel <jhuebel@gentoo.org>]

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On Tuesday 29 June 2004 12:22 pm, Jeffrey Forman wrote:
> I'm only concerned with this bloating the livecd past levels where they
> still fit in traditional media without breaking out compression-fu to
> get it working. to be honest, do that many people NEED samba support
> during the installation of gentoo?
>
> my 2 brain cells
>
> -jeff
>
> On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 11:37, John Davis wrote:
> > Hey all -
> > SMB shares are fun and useful, but our present livecds are unable to
> > mount them. We do in fact have smbfs support in the kernel, but like
> > nfs, smb needs its userland tool samba to complete the mount (iirc). So,
> > are there any major objections to adding samba onto our livecds?
> >
> > Cheers,

I'm on the fence on this one. I could see where a person might want to grab 
the stage tarball off of another machine (that perhaps has a windows or samba 
share), but other than that I don't see much use for it...

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