Re: [Devil-linux-develop] DL completely contained on CD?

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

On 08/27/2003 08:26:54 AM Bruce Smith wrote:
>> > It would be easy to hack the linuxrc startup script, and say if
>> > /cdrom/config/etc-static.tar.gz2 exists, then completely ignore th=
e
>> > floppy and USB devices, and ONLY untar the static etc file from CD=
.
>>
>> I like this idea, too.
>> It will work only with IDE CD-ROMs .
>
>Good point.
>
>Speaking of CD drives, I installed the latest DL on a PC with a SCSI C=
D
>drive for the first time yesterday.  I started out with a blank floppy=
.
>It booted, ask if I wanted to copy the config to floppy (I said "y"),
>and it ask if I wanted to probe for SCSI controllers.  Again I said "y=
".
>And ... PUKE!  :-)   It couldn't find any SCSI modules.
>
>Are any SCSI modules available to the boot script at that time now?
>Or have they all been removed to save memory?  Or have they moved?
>
>If they've been removed, we might as well remove the code (and questio=
n)
>for probing for SCSI.

All the SCSI modules should be there.

>> I would do it this way: check if conventional config media is
>available,
>> if not, check if we find a IDE CD-ROM with the config on it, if not,=

>> *BEEP* BEEP* BEEP* Please insert blablabla
>
>I can't decide if it'd be best to check for media on CD or media first=
.
>They both have their advantages.

Just implement one, you can switch it later if you don't like it.
That's just a bit cut'n'paste.

>> > How hard would it be to write a script that would read a DL CD (or=

>ISO),
>> > replace one file on it, and write a new ISO image?  This script
>would
>> > need to run in a normal Linux distribution (Redhat/SuSE/...), not
>from
>> > the chroot development environment.
>>
>> I don't think that will be too hard, we (actually you) just need to
>play
>> around with the mkisofs/cdrecord tools. You also need to define a
>> minimum version of the tool.
>
>I took a quick look at the build-iso script, and it shouldn't be too
>hard to write such a script.

Yeah, even you should understand it. *lol*
(sorry, couldn't resist).

cya
   Heiko
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