Re: some ideas for 2.2.10 (documenting, messages)
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 02:08:08PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> I'd like comments on some of my ideas of things to do for 2.2.10:
>
> * cp /var/log/messages from root.bin into /target/var/log/messages
> prior to reboot. This lets the user look back at their installer
> log and will help our debugging.
>
> Perhaps the file should be copied to /target/var/log/install.log ?
The latter seems like a better file. We can simply say "please submit your
/va/log/install.log with the bug report" and not worry about extracting it
from the top of the messages file.
> * more informational log messages from dbootstrap, such as,
> "formatting /dev/hda1 as ext2 (kernel 2.2 mode)"
Sounds good.
> * when we're using kernels, extract the /boot/config* file and have
> that available from the documentation so the users can seem what
> options are compiled and and which are not; This is useful on i386
> esp. when users are selecting flavors to use
Could be installed into the flavors directory as (sparc for example):
sun4cdm/kernel-config-2.2.14
I also think we need to add this to kernel.sh so that the config gets
installed to the new /target/boot just like it would be if the kernel
package was installed. It could be compressed on the rescue disk as
config.gz and would only take about 2k or 3k.
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