[clue-tech] Ubuntu Installation

Jed S. Baer cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net
Mon Jan 14 23:06:56 MST 2008


On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:40:43 -0700
David L. Anselmi wrote:

> > Really? The only reason I'm a bit dubious is that with Ubuntu using
> > Live CD's, aren't most of the packages in the squashed filesystem
> > image?
> 
> I don't know.  Perhaps the live CD folks have abandoned using the CD as 
> a source for packages so apt-cdrom isn't useful for those.  Perhaps 
> everything on the CD gets installed by default (I hate the way Ubuntu 
> has one package that depends on everything in their base system.  But
> it works for them.)

Well, I got the squashed FS mounted. No package files. Probably time to
stop speculating. :)


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