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Re: rootskel and bugreporter-udeb



Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:19:30PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > > Good point, although it was being saved to the ram disk in /var/log 
> > > anyway in the previous version.
> > 
> > Well /var/log is where the logs are kept while the installer is running.
> 
> That's not how I interpreted what the debconf note promises, although I
> do agree in principle. I've found myself forgetting which directory 
> I'm supposed to be looking in (/target/var/log or /var/log).
>  
> > > I suppose it would be prudent to skip /target and save to
> > > /var/log/debian-installer if /target doesn't exist or isn't mounted?
> > 
> > I don't see the point of copying files around in the ram disk.
> 
> Does that mean you'd rather see them in /var/log/debian-installer or
> /target/var/log/debian-installer? I'd gather the former. I was trying to
> keep stuff off the ram disk in keeping with a low ram install or such.

I don't understand what you're trying to do here.

Copying longs from /var/log to /var/log/installer on the ramdisk is
thuroughly pointless and a waste of memory.

Copying logs to /target/var/log/installer is already done by
prebaseconfig.

-- 
see shy jo

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