Re: boot-floppies 2.2.9 and Debian CD's...
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> Just a note to the CD folks. I've added a few things to boot-floppies
> 2.2.9 (upcoming) that makes CD installs a little smarter by making
> assumptions on where the files are and avoid asking the user. The way
> dbootstrap detects this is a file (empty or not, doesn't matter),
> "/cdrom_image" on the root filesystem that it is running on.
>
> To implement this you only need to create this file in the root image that
> is used for the CD's initrd. You can look at the sparc cd stuff, but it's
> slightly different in that it actually uses the CD for the root
> filesystem, whereas everything else will probably only use the root image.
>
> Let me know if anyone has questions about how to set this up on the CD's.
Well, I'm not the guy who makes the CDs, but AFAIK we "always" used everything
straight from the boot-floppies dir on the FTP servers, and did not make our
own version of any file/floppy image. Should either -boot or -cd make these
new images?
(Or, quite possibly: do I get it all wrong?)
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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