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choasforages:
kinda like what i did with slackware, but even odder , SWEET

foobar:
Ah, void, i would almost think you was a mind-reader.
I think it's rather annoying FTP'ing to ftp.nl.uu.net or whatever pro-linux-rpm package site.
So, if it was possible to mount an ftp site, why not at boot time ? So you could just 'cp' from the external system to the local.

DC:

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
Well I would imagine that if you have high speed access and wanted to mount up your closest Linux distribution mirror you could install apps right off of the FTP site without having to download them first.  Just an example...
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I said 'en masse in a LAN'. FTP isn't ment for that (read the site). I can understand why someone would want to mount a ftp site (although it is still not ment to be mounted or browsed or used as a fs - ftp is ment only to transfer files - hence the name).

why the HELL would you mount a FTP-site at boottime? Do you really need constant access to a single FTP site (that's were boottime-mounting is for, sort of). Anyway. You can mount it using mount with the patch voidman gave, so (as long as  the site is accessible when it's mounted - that means inet access is active) it's possible.

voidmain:
I can't imagine a need for it on a LAN when you could use NFS instead, but I can see where it could be useful.  Aparently the guy who wrote it had a need for it.

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