On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:28:12PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:36:33 +1000 > Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: > > What's going to go on the rootfs? Presumably something like: > > libc6, busybox-udeb, ash-udeb > > udpkg, cdebconf, anna > > *-retriever and any dependencies they have > > /lib/modules/<kernel>/** > The floppy is too small a place for putting in i18n locale info, and > debian-installer, and I think this was the initial intention of > d-i being modular. Do we need the i18n locale info in the rootfs though? All you need is enough i18n so you can prompt for which retriever to use, and to configure it, no? In the normal case, you're installing from a CD, so we can figure out some way of automating that entirely -- "did we boot from a cd? yes? then use cdrom-retriever, install libc6 etc, then start prompting for real" -- in which case we don't have to worry about floppy sizes. And in the next most common case, you just need to be able to enter a URL in your preferred language, which is pretty straightforward. In any event, there's no better way to do this -- you need some way of prompting the user to "insert the next disk" in their local language, and if you can't manage that for a 3k -retriever, you're not going to be able to manage it at all, afaict. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.''
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