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Re: Debian installer for Linuxcare rescue CD



Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> writes:

> That's useful.  But doesn't a kernel-image .deb package get installed
> somehow?

No, I don't think so.

> I printed out the source of dinstall from the boot-floppies package in
> slink, and I'm going to start reading through it soon.

Um, it's call dbootstrap.

> The only thing I
> need to understand is what files need to be modified in order to use a
> different kernel and different modules than the kernel and modules (2.2.12)
> which were shipped in the slink-and-a-half installer.

Top-level makefile vars.

> I would still be grateful for a little more information on how the
> installer finds its kernel image and modules.  Do I understand correctly that
> the kernel is just coming from /linux (or a mounted rescue disk's /linux),

>From utilities/dbootstrap/extract_kernel.c, line 102 (potato version,
slink is probably much the same):

  chdir("/floppy");
  status=system("./install.sh /target");

> and that the modules are just coming from the .tar.gz file inside
> drv1440.bin?

That just get's zcat'd and untarred.  It's just a big split compressed
tarball.

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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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