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Re: Boot proposition for Debian Hurd on USB keys


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: Boot proposition for Debian Hurd on USB keys
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 00:45:26 +0100
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Paul Dufresne, le ven. 05 févr. 2021 17:50:32 -0500, a ecrit:
> ---- Le ven., 05 févr. 2021 14:27:15 -0500 Samuel Thibault 
> <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> écrit ----
> 
>  > Paul Dufresne, le ven. 05 févr. 2021 12:22:33 -0500, a ecrit: 
>  > > Well, realizing that I would need to make a local mirror of Debian (to 
> be 
>  > > edited by debian-cd, what a strange idea!) 
>  >  
>  > What do you mean by "edited" ? 
>  >  
>  > debian-cd picks up the .deb files from the mirror, that are needed to 
>  > have an installable system. What "edit" do you see there? 
>  >  
> [...]
> I got the feeling of "editing" the mirror from:
> What is needed: [...] a Debian mirror, on a partition where you can write.
> in the https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/-/blob/master/README

You have some more details further down: you need write access to be
able to hardlink the files, so the CD image tree is costless to build,
which saves a lot of disk workload.

Samuel



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