Re: boot-floppies 2.2.9 and Debian CD's...
Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> When mkhybrid creates the CD, you pass it the image(s) to use for booting.
> One of these is the root.bin from boot-floppies. It does not need to be
> recreated for the CD's, just simply:
>
> gzip -dc root.bin > root.bin.uncompressed
> mount -o loop root.bin.uncompressed /mnt
> touch /mnt/cdrom_image
> umount /mnt
> gzip -c9 root.bin.uncompressed > root.bin
>
> It's quite simple, and then that becomes the root image used for CD
> booting.
Ew. Wouldn't it be better to look for a file in the *CD* root dir
rather than the root.bin root dir? Or is this too hard to do?
Also, could you please notate these and all other changes in
debian/changelog of boot-floppies? Thanks.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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