Terah and I will be camping at
Kanopolis State Park sometime in the next few days. When I say camping, I mean "pack the tent and gear into the backpack and hike at least a mile from any motorized vehicle or electricty." Some things we will
not be doing while camping (and these are real questions people have asked us):
- Staying in a hotel
- Using any sort of RV
- Using portable TVs
- Staying in any sort of permanent structure at the park
So, yesterday I got out the camping gear. It's been several years since I've used it, and I wanted to make sure it was all in order. I set up the tent (which is lightweight and rolls up very small, great to fit in a backpack). It is looking good. (And I'm a big fan of The North Face -- their backpacking gear is great)
But there's a problem.
Terah is a much more picky eater than I am. I have never bothered with a heat source at a campsite, since my camping trips tend to be short enough that I don't mind eating 1) things that last awhile like apples and carrots, 2) dried or dry things of various types, and 3) canned items that are ready to eat.
Terah is not going to go for this. So I think we will go to the Coleman factory outlet store and buy a small backpacker's burner and bring along some materials for things she likes to eat.
I've just released DFS 0.6.19 at the
DFS page. For people that aren't familiar with DFS, it's several things:
- A full "manual" installer for Debian similar to Gentoo's -- you manually run fdisk, mkfs, etc. and then use cdebootstrap to install the base system. The DFS CD contains the information to install either testing or unstable directly.
- A full text-only rescue environment on the live CD, including tools such as emacs, gcc, kernel source (you can compile a new kernel using only this CD and some disk space somewhere), development environments for multiple languages, filesystem and partitioning tools for just about every filesystem out there, etc.
- A system for easily building custom live CD environments from Debian packages. Great for building customized rescue CDs or demo CDs.
DFS 0.6.19 has fixes mainly for i386 and amd64. The i386 image contains both i386 and amd64 kernels (the CD boots to Grub and you can choose which one you want at that time). It has newer kernels than the previous release to support some newer hardware, as well as an updated userland.
The dfsbuild package, in sid, is used to generate these images.
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