Re: K15 mini iso
Thanks for this Michael,
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 15:17, Michael Banck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:43:22AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote:
> > This has turned out to be a tidy image and should not give any
> > problems.
>
> I tested it now on qemu and I found three minor issue:
>
> 1. In the installer, the Hurd ext2 partitions are not created with -b
> 4096, so partitions smaller than around 500 MB will panic on first
> boot.
I will have a fiddle with this.
> 2. There is a /usr->. symlink, not a real /usr.
There was a debate about this a while back. To sysmlink or not to
symlink. So
1. Should there be a symlink or not?
2. Should usr directories sit on / or /usr/ (as in Linux)?
>
> 3. If the user does not add "-s" to the grub kernel line for the
> second reboot (before running native-install a second time), the
> /dev/tty1 passive translator does not get and a subsequent reboot into
> multi-user mode will fail with an ipc error. I suggest to just add
> tty1 to the list of devices to create during the first
> native-install.
>
> The reason for 3. is that on second reboot, /libexec/runsystem will be
> run if you don't use "-s", which touches /dev/tty1 for some obscure
> reason (I introduced that myself some time ago) and then later on when
> the /dev/tty[1-6] devices get created by the hurd package, /dev/tty1 is
> not touched as it exists already.
>
> Note that we had quite a few people having issues with 3 for K14
> already. so adding the work-around of creating tty1 in native-install
> seems worth it to me.
Ah, these people that don't use my grub floppy or cdrom ;) Single user
has the -s option. Okay will fix.
I will quietly work on the revisions and let everyone how I get on.
Phil.
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