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Bug#268767: Successful Alpha installation



On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 10:18:00PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote:
> Thus spake Steve Langasek:
> > Huzzah!  I'll mark this aboot-installer update as needing to go into
> > sarge.

> Much thanks, I appreciate all the work that's gone into getting this up
> and running!

> Something I noticed (not sure if this is intentional or not), but the
> aboot.conf which is used is under /boot/etc/aboot.conf (but there's
> still an /etc/aboot.conf).  I'm assuming this is an artifact of the
> "aboot needs an ext2 partition" requirement, so rather than force / to
> be ext2, the required files have just been shoved down under /boot on a
> separate partition.  If that's the case, I'm not complaining - just
> wanted to make sure that's the intended behavior.

Yes, aboot expects its config file to be named /etc/aboot.conf on the
partition in question, and it must be on an ext2 partition, so the
easiest solution is to put it on /boot if that is a separate partition.
There is definitely room for improvement in the handling of
/etc/aboot.conf on the root partition.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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