On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:22:58PM +0100, Olivier Trichet wrote:
> > Here is what the English message documents:
> > If the root partition is not ext2, various files needed for booting need
> > to be copied to an ext2 partition. These files are /etc/aboot.conf,
> > /vmlinuz, /initrd.img, and the files that /vmlinuz and /initrd.img point
> > to.
> > Displaying all of this to the user seems like overkill -- the entire
> > operation should take only a second, so I think having multiple lines of
> > text would only be confusing to users.
> > The initial ramdisk image, /initrd.img, is an (disk) image belonging to
> > the kernel.
> > Therefore, since we are copying two image files, there are two images
> > that we are copying for one kernel. :)
> C'est joliment expliqué merci.
> > Suggestions on how better to express this are certainly welcome.
> Je ne sais pas si c'est mieux, mais pourquoi pas
> "Copying kernel related images to ${BOOTDEV}."
Do you think this adds anything to the user's comprehension? It seems
to me that the two are nearly equivalent in terms of what they
communicate to the user. But I have no strong preference -- if someone
feels the English text should be changed and wants to commit it to CVS,
that's ok with me.
Regards,
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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