Re: load add-on from net

From: Gerrit Lammert (lammert@gmx.de)
Date: Wed Jul 03 2002 - 19:36:26 CEST


Hi Joshua.

Am 03.07.2002 um 09:43 schrieb Joshua Hudson:

>>From: "Gerrit Lammert" <lammert@gmx.de>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>i can choose to load an addon from floppy or from
>>file (on harddisk), but sometimes (beeing somewhere else)
>>i only have the root+boot+usr floppy and
>>cant download the addons to disk. Would it be
>>possible, to give an URL
>>where the addon can be loaded and installed from?
>>So instead of /anyDir/SRV.tgz it would be
>>http//remote.host.com/anyDir/SRV.tgz ??
>>
>>...gerrit
>Would it be possible to download the file
>and save it to /tmp (4MB ramdisk)?

Yes, I could create an additional ramdisk, download the file there,
untargzip it and then install from that partition/ramdisk. But it would be
great, if that task was integrated into the load-addon-script of mu.

...gerrit

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