Re: debian-installer help wanted

[Glenn McGrath <bug1@iinet.net.au>]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:54:46 -0500
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:

> Glenn McGrath wrote:

> > Is the only reason we need a writable filesystem so that the install
> > reoprt can be stored there ? Is that a permanent feature ?
> 
> There are dozens of places where the installer writes to its
> filesystem. A few:
> 
>   - /etc/ files written by netcfg
>   - cdebconf databases
>   - logs
>   - apt-install's queue
>   - register-module's queue
>   - anna/udpkg

I mean the filesystem type of the rootdisk image, before its moved to
tmpfs.

Obviously when booting from cd the filesystem isnt writtable, so for
consistency it should be safe to assume the same for all boot media.

romfs->tmpfs makes more sense to me than ext2->tmpfs



Glenn