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Bug#58836: boot-floppies: [documentation] Replacing kernel on boot floppy: inconsistent with readme.txt



Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.7
Severity: important

The readme.txt file on the rescue disk and the installation documents that
it produces do not seem to be in sync.

While readme.txt advises initrd, ramdisk, loop, msdos, fat, elf, ext2fs and
 procfs to be linked in the kernel, the installation manual advises
 initrd (depends on ramdisk), fat, minix, ext2fs and elf. My feeling
 is that the union of these services is required for a running bootdisk
 kernel.
 
Thanks,

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux pc427a 2.2.13 #1 Mon Dec 6 20:38:59 EET 1999 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages boot-floppies depends on:
ii  ash            0.3.5-9        NetBSD /bin/sh
ii  bison          1.28-5         A parser generator that is compatible with Y
ii  debhelper      2.0.88         helper programs for debian/rules
ii  debiandoc-sgml 1.1.40         DebianDoc SGML DTD and formatting tools
ii  dpkg-awk       0.9.1          Gawk script to parse /var/lib/dpkg/{status,a
ii  dpkg-dev       1.6.9          Package building tools for Debian
ii  file           3.28-1         Determines file type using "magic" numbers
ii  flex           2.5.4a-6       A fast lexical analyzer generator.
ii  gcc            2.95.2-6       The GNU C compiler.
ii  gettext        0.10.35-13     GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  libgd1g-dev    1.7.3-0.1      GD Graphics Library (development version).
ii  libi18n-langta 0.12-6         Perl module for dealing with RFC1766-style l
ii  libnewt-dev    0.50-5.3       Developer's toolkit for newt windowing libra
ii  libpaperg      1.0.3-12.2     Library for handling paper characteristics [
ii  libpopt-dev    1.4-1          lib for parsing cmdline parameters - develop
ii  libwww-perl    5.47-1         WWW client/server library for Perl
ii  lynx           2.8.2-6        Text-mode WWW Browser
ii  m4             1.4-10         a macro processing language
ii  make           3.78.1-6       The GNU version of the "make" utility.
ii  makedev        2.3.1-39       Creates special device files in /dev.
ii  man-db         2.3.10-71      Display the on-line manual.
ii  pointerize     0.4            Internationalization utilities, based on get
ii  python-xml     0.5.1-3        XML tools for Python
ii  recode         3.5-1          Character set conversion utility.
ii  rsync          2.4.1-1        fast remote file copy program (like rcp)
ii  slang1-pic     1.3.9-1        The S-Lang programming library, shared libra
ii  tetex-bin      1.0.6-3        teTeX binary files
ii  tetex-extra    1.0-7          extra teTeX library files
ii  zlib1g-dev     1.1.3-5        compression library - development
ii  libc6-pic      2.1.3-4        GNU C Library: PIC archive library
	^^^ (Provides virtual package glibc-pic)
ii  perl-5.004     5.004.05-4.1   Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
	^^^ (Provides virtual package perl5)


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