From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from atlrel6.hp.com (atlrel6.hp.com [192.151.27.8]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C4C7489E for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:37:59 -0600 (MDT) To: Albert Strasheim Cc: "Carlos O'Donell Jr." , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Don't Use base tarballs (was Re: [parisc-linux] nfsroot login problems on 720/50) In-Reply-To: Message from Albert Strasheim of "Sat, 22 Sep 2001 01:56:10 +0200." <20010922015609.A14166@dogbert.localdomain> References: <20010921193553.A11874@dogbert.localdomain> <20010921180529.C32145@megatonmonkey.net> <20010922015609.A14166@dogbert.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:37:57 -0600 From: Matt Taggart Message-Id: <20010924203757.BCCE337DDD@carmen.fc.hp.com> List-ID: Albert Strasheim writes... > Should I try the base tarball (same date... :-( ) or is that known to be > bad too? Neither are "bad" just out of date. As soon as we had a real installer everyone switched over to using that. They were left there for historical reasons. I have moved them to an old directory to prevent confusion. No one should be using these any more. If, for some good reason, you can't use the normal installer process then I think the proper way to generate base tarballs now is to use the debootstrap tool. If there's enough demand then we could generate them and put them on the ftp site again. -- Matt Taggart Linux Development Lab taggart@fc.hp.com HP Linux Systems Operation