Re: boot-floppies 2.2.9 and Debian CD's...
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 05:04:33PM -0800, Jim Westveer wrote:
>
> On 23-Mar-2000 Ben Collins wrote:
> > Just a note to the CD folks. I've added a few things to boot-floppies
> > 2.2.9 (upcoming) that makes CD installs a little smarter by making
> > assumptions on where the files are and avoid asking the user. The way
> > dbootstrap detects this is a file (empty or not, doesn't matter),
> > "/cdrom_image" on the root filesystem that it is running on.
> >
> > To implement this you only need to create this file in the root image that
> > is used for the CD's initrd. You can look at the sparc cd stuff, but it's
> > slightly different in that it actually uses the CD for the root
> > filesystem, whereas everything else will probably only use the root image.
> >
> > Let me know if anyone has questions about how to set this up on the CD's.
>
> Ben,
>
> There already IS a file on the CD's that are not on the archive.
> Actually there are several:
>
> /boot (the entire directory)
> and
> /.disk/info (a copy of the CD lable)
>
> Why not use these as your "flag" instead of creating yet another file
> that a "newbie" will not understand ??
This is in the *root.bin* that the CD uses for initrd, not the CD itself.
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