RE: boot-floppies 2.2.9 and Debian CD's...
On 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.
Ben,
There already IS a file on the CD's that are not on the archive.
Actually there are several:
/boot (the entire directory)
and
/.disk/info (a copy of the CD lable)
Why not use these as your "flag" instead of creating yet another file
that a "newbie" will not understand ??
Just a thought.
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Jim Westveer <jwest@netnw.com>
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