Bug#190392: ITP: grub-disk -- GRUB bootable disk image

[Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org>]

Hi

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 05:44:45PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> It is _not_ taking 1.4 MB. GRUB is very small and the whole disk just
> takes 88 KBs.
> 
> > 	Write a 50-line shell skript that
> > 		- makes a filesystem
> > 		- copies /boot/grub
> > 		- copies a given kernel image
> > 		- installes grub
> > 	and put this script into the grub package where everybody
> > 	already misses it...
> 
> It's called mkbimage, Jason added it to the grub package some time ago.
> 
> All grub-disk does is putting together the files and using mkbimage to
> build the disk image. If you feel comfortable with mkbimage, then
> grub-disk is probably not for you.

If it's only 88kb, then why not putting it into the grub package.
My intention was just to avoid creating the 2thousandst Debian package
which has moreover only a couple of bytes in in...

bye,

-christian-