-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:04:35 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:48:44PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:45:54PM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg > > wrote: > > > Interesting to experiment with, but not a quick fix for today. > > > > Sure. I'd just like to point out that, today, there is no way to > > add a drive to a configuration like mine, while using yaird, that > > is not extremely painful, manual, and awkward. Even if I had known > > that yaird would be such a problem before I did it, there's no > > obvious way to generate a new initrd for any configuration other > > than my current one. > > The plan for this is to modify the d-i rescue mode to be able to > regenerate the yaird initrd (BTW, Jonas, maybe you could already add > a yaird .udeb for that), so you add your disk, boot into the d-i > rescue mode, the ramdisk gets regenerated, and all works fine. Is that plan documented somewhere? I seem to remember sceptical voices when that approach was mentioned on #debian-kernel. One point raised was with remote-controlled systems. What I would like is a kernel-install-helper extended to provide the user with a choice of ramdisk tool similar to choice of default dictionaries today. Read the draft here: wiki.debian.org/FlexibleKernelHandling Regarding udeb: Could someone provide me a good reference for that - I have never packaged a udeb. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDZ0B1n7DbMsAkQLgRArEPAJ9E7iIHS4x0wt/5IKKLbKTyHGcQEgCfTdSN QZ3V2H6++YbO14WhxtnpAhQ= =sywv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
