On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 10:41 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2015-01-07, Ian Campbell wrote: > > And therefore aren't they more usefully built along with > > that iso? Otherwise how do you know how big to make the partition to > > contain the iso at d-i build time given the varied sizes of .iso and > > sd-card you can buy? > > It would also be nice to have media with the .iso file built-in, but I > don't think a requirement for it to be useful without that.
Having a second external media isn't very common on the sorts of device we are talking about, is it? > I definitely see the case for moving some of the code into debian-cd, or > another utility. > > I've considered making such a utility and shipping it in u-boot-tools, > but didn't get around to it for jessie. The sd-card offsets in this > patchset duplicate information in the various u-boot* README.Debian > files, and it would make sense to move that into a script. This script > could also generate SD images with a vmlinuz, initrd, bootscript, dtb, > .iso, etc. and would be useful outside the context of debian-installer. > Then, if debian-installer, debian-cd, or some other utility wanted to > use it, then they could depend on u-boot-tools... That sounds pretty sensible. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1420656404.11796.33.ca...@debian.org
