[Rule-list] breaking the applist out of slinky boot disk

[James]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:35:38 -0500
Devon <devon at tuxfan.homeip.net> wrote:

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> On Tuesday 19 March 2002 12:05 pm, James wrote:
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> > Correct me if I'm wrong ..... and often I am.  But this would also make
> > slinky/miniconda cross distro as well wouldn't it? (I percieve this as
> > good.)
> 
> The format of the files is such that it is already not distro specific. 
> For example, the current installer should now work with Red Hat 7.0 (for 
> example) disks as well. Or a disk full of rawhide packages, for that 
> matter. I've changed the entries in the package files to include only the 
> base names of the packages. As long as you have enough of the packages 
> (by the same basename) to build a working system, you can install about 
> anything. (provided it is an rpm based distro, of course.) Packages for 
> which no match is found will be skipped. 
> 
> James, what is it that your waiting for from me so that you can try 
> slinky on your laptop? I've forgotten what prevented you from booting. 
> The lack of loadable modules, I assume?

Actually the lack of loadable me.... I'm online but not in the same city as the box and won't be for about a week.. Sorry.  (VNC power)

James

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