Re: installing core udebs

[Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au>]

Juist a short not to say im still work on this plan.

i.e.

static busybox based initrd that

1) mounts /proc, /dev/shm
2) scans /proc/ and mounts storage devices under /mnt/<device-name>
3) does something like a dpkg-scanpackages to find installer packages.
4) unpackags the installer from udebs to virtual memory filessytem.
5) chroots to the installer and starts it.


One problem so far is that devfs doesnt change the device names in
/proc/ide, so im oging to have to come up with an ugly hack to get it to
work for devfs... but then i could scan /dev instead of /proc i guess.

Im currently doing some groundwork for a dpkg-scanpackages, trying to
workout custom streams with fopencookie, looks like they could simplify
quite a lot.


Glenn