From owner-mint@fishpool.com Sun Mar 30 01:27:40 2003 Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 13:24:21 +0100 From: milarb@volny.cz (Bohdan Milar) Subject: Re: [MiNT] OSMD release To: mint@fishpool.com (mint) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" X-Mailer: aMail 1.28b/MiNT Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: milarb@volny.cz Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by prinz.cs.uni-magdeburg.de id h2U0Rbn01089 On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:14:19 +0100 (CET), Standa Opichal wrote: > Hi! > > Nice to hear about this distribution as this might be the very one to > install a minimal RPM driven base without any GEM setup programs. Yes, that's just it. > I didn't manage to try it out so far.... :( It takes up to two hours on a Falcon030, but I hope it is much faster on ARAnyM - please try. > Small suggestion follow anyway... > > May the archive name contain the version number (on the WEB)? Good idea. I hould not be so lazy and just replace the zip file. > Is it likely the it would be able to install the SpareMiNT directly from > the ftp (like: rpm -i ftp://sparemint.atariforge.net/pub/sparemint/sparemint/RPMS/*.rpm). > So that the only thing I need to run on my client is a working mintnet > configuration and not having to have all the RPMs locally? I think it is nearly possible. You could run the setup.en script from shell, but first it have to be modified a bit. > Maybe a cooperation/improvements in CrippleMiNT installation (the mintnet > minimal distro). I would suggest to install the CrippleMiNT and than > seemlesly change this into full SpareMiNT via the OSMD for example. Interesting idea. Theoretically I could change the script (see above) setup.en - the heart of OSMD in the way it could be started from a bash of any installed MiNT. > This > would be very valuable e.g. in LAN environments where I simply have the > RPMS somewhere and I would want to install OSMD on some other machine > there.... (notebook, whatever). Now when ARAnyM network works the rpm-ftp cooperation would be great. I will try to prepare something like this to the OSMD 0.8. Best regards, Bohdan Milar