Re: CVS script
Steve,
Powerpc uses
hmount $3
hattrib -b ":install:powermac"
humount $3
( RE: debian-cd/tools/boot/potato/post-boot-powerpc)
Would something similar work for the alpha images as well ???
Jim Westveer...
On 06-Aug-2000 Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 04:47:58PM +0200, Frank Ronneburg wrote:
>>Quoting Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>:
>>>
>>> When I want to create potato CDs with the scripts checked out from CVS it
>>> gives me the following errors:
>>> -there is no isomarkboot executable
>>
>>You will find it in the Package "aboot". It is available for
>>Alpha only.
>>
>>> I don't know who is responsible for the alpha part of the scripts but
>>> these errors are very old (several weeks, maybe one month)...
>>>
>>> Could somebody fix them somehow?
>>
>>Is it possible do build a Package "aboot" for i386 ? At the moment it
>>is not possible to build bootable CDs for Alpha on a i386.
>>
>>Workaround: mount the Partition with the CD Images via NFS on
>>a alpha Machine and run aboot on the Alpha...
>
> Alternatively, we could add an isomarkboot program (or source) to the
> debian-cd package. Slink-cd shipped including isomarkboot for alpha
> and i386. Loic Prylli compiled up the i386 version for me ages ago -
> January 1999. Or (as he suggested back then!) we should split the
> isomarkboot program off into a separate package for all architectures,
> and then debian-cd can depend on it.
>
> Checking now, I can't get isomarkboot to build from source on my i386
> box, but that could well be a local problem...
>
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