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Bug#475774: Please include a version.txt in the boot.img.gz image



Op 13-04-2008 om 10:12 schreef Geert Stappers:
> There is a file named something like "/etc/lsb-release"

It is...

|stappers@viggo:~
|$ mkdir 475774/
|stappers@viggo:~
|$ cd !$
|cd 475774/
|stappers@viggo:~/475774
|$ wget -q http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz
|stappers@viggo:~/475774
|$ tar xzf netboot.tar.gz  # extract the tarball
|stappers@viggo:~/475774
|$ ls
|debian-installer  netboot.tar.gz  pxelinux.0  pxelinux.cfg
|stappers@viggo:~/475774
|$ cd debian-installer/amd64/ # go into directory with d-i boot files
|stappers@viggo:~/475774/debian-installer/amd64
|$ file initrd.gz  # what kind of file is it?
|initrd.gz: gzip compressed data, was "initrd", from Unix, last modified:
|Wed Feb 27 18:28:23 2008, max compression
|stappers@viggo:~/475774/debian-installer/amd64
|$ gunzip initrd.gz # decompress it
|stappers@viggo:~/475774/debian-installer/amd64
|$ file initrd # what is it?
|initrd: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC)
|stappers@viggo:~/475774/debian-installer/amd64
|$ mkdir initialramdisk # create a new directory
|stappers@viggo:~/475774/debian-installer/amd64
|$ cd !$ # go there
|cd initialramdisk
|stappers@viggo:~/475774/debian-installer/amd64/initialramdisk
|$ cpio -i < ../initrd 
|cpio: dev/console: Cannot mknod: Operation not permitted
|cpio: dev/null: Cannot mknod: Operation not permitted
|28174 blocks
|stappers@viggo:~/475774/debian-installer/amd64/initialramdisk
|$ ls
|bin  etc     init    lib    mnt   sbin  tmp  var
|dev  floppy  initrd  lib64  proc  sys   usr
|stappers@viggo:~/475774/debian-installer/amd64/initialramdisk
|$ ls etc/*lsb* # check for some lsb file
|etc/lsb-release
|stappers@viggo:~/475774/debian-installer/amd64/initialramdisk
|$ cat etc/lsb-release # show it
|DISTRIB_ID=Debian
|DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
|DISTRIB_RELEASE="lenny (installer build 20080227)"
|X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=netboot
|stappers@viggo:~/475774/debian-installer/amd64/initialramdisk
|$ 



Cheers
Geert Stappers

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