Re: EMILE package testers sought
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:47:12PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> What is /debian/boot? Is that part of the initrd? Or are you saying that
> /boot could be initialized as HFS during partitioning? Penguin can use a
> kernel on HFS of course -- I wonder if emile can?
>
> If you make /boot HFS, the kernel is limited to a read-only mount, and so
> you'd need special tools to write to it: hfsprogs, hfsplus and/or
> hfsutils. So installing kernel debs isn't going to be much easier.
Eh, it's not? I've been writing to HFS file systems since I first
installed Linux/m68k.
But symlinks wouldn't work; that much is true.
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