Re: CD issues...
Ben Collins wrote:
> I've been attempting to create some sparc CD's. I've never done this
> before, so I've had to learn and fix at the same time :)
>
> Basically, I have a working setup, with a few tweaks. What I wanted to
> know is, is it ok to commit changes to the debian-cd tree, or are these
> treated different from the boot-floppies cvs?
>
> Also, I've commited a few minor changes to dbootstrap and scripts so that
> it is possible to boot a read-only root (a la, CDROM filesystem as the
> root). It also does a couple of other things. For instance, if
> "/cdrom_image" exists, then the choose_medium gives an nice bit of extra
> info telling the user they ought to use the CDROM method (silly I know,
> but it helps, and doesn't hurt). It also makes the search for kernel,
> drivers and base a little smarter by not presenting any choices when they
> use this method (two less questions to the user, always a big bonus).
>
> So any of the porters creating CD images, simply need to "touch
> /cdrom_image" in the root.bin that they use for the CDROM creation. Also
> there is one extra thing, since SPARC is going to use an ext2 filesystem
> as the main fs on the first CD, this means that it will use the "mounted"
> method, and dbootstrap recognizes this aswell.
>
> Any questions, just ask. Nothing I've changed with regard to this should
Yes, me ;-)
> affect anything else. Plus in the process, I actually fixed a few things
> in other places :)
Why do you need ext2fs on the first CD? I'd rather like to keep it iso9660
because I would want to see CD contents on many other systems (Solaris for
example). Especially if I want to extract the tftpboot image to configure a
TFTP server and export the CDROM over NFS.
Regards.
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Eric Delaunay | S'il n'y a pas de solution, c'est qu'il n'y
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