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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