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Bug#783982: D-i: preseed from floppy no longer works !



On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 03:50 +0300, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> No idea about GNU cpio.
> Is it compatible with BSD cpio ?
> I can't easily introduce new dependency for portable code. (host-side
> must be very portable code)
> It will require investigation.
> 
> Besides, this command didn't work for me. (preseed.cfg wasn't added)

It certainly works if you use GNU cpio (that's what we use to build the
shipped initramfs, after all).  FreeBSD cpio also supports the '-H newc'
option, but it looks like the NetBSD and OpenBSD equivalent is
'-H sv4cpio'.  I didn't test any of those, though.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.

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