On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:09:05AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:08:35PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > > > it seems that i have resolved, either through accident or design, most > > of the /instmnt problems. > > > > the only issue left is the Live CD. > > and, of course, after putting the code down for a night, i came up with > some possibly better ideas: > > my proposal: > a) add a new method, ``target'' that specifically looks under /target > b) look to see if we are a LiveCD, add a method ``LiveCD'' or whatever, > that looks under some #define'd variable, so we can change it at will > to meet the whims of the LiveCD people. (with some trickery, and if > the LiveCD people say they want this, we can override the compiled in > default via some bootargs variables) > c) have ``mounted'' only available if there is a partition mounted on > /instmnt > d) same as it ever was > > so b) and c) would be new, on demand, methods, similar in nature to the > ``cdrom'' method. > > this seems to leave everything as robust as possible, while making > things seem a bit more natural. >
FWIW John, my thought is that you've become familiar enough with this stuff, which no one else has taken the time to do, that I would trust your judgment as to how it should work. Also, I'm assuming you'll be able to easily fix it if it does break something someone's expecting. I just think it's horribly broken now, and that usually means rethinking assumptions and trying to build in robustness as you are doing. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
