Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi, | >>"E" == E L Meijer \(Eric\) <E.L.> writes: | | E> Being lazy myself, I have a feature request on behalf of all the (lazy) | E> loadlin users. Would it be possible to have the newly created | E> kernel-image package offer the option of copying the kernel to the | E> place loadlin expects it in your setup? I would figure that | E> kernel-package_...deb could ask if there is a standard | E> `loadlin-kernel-directory', and store that in its configuration files. | E> Of course it should rename old kernels using some intelligent renaming | E> scheme (vmlinuz.1, vmlinuz.2, ...). | | Is it really that bad doing a | # cp /vmlinuz /place/to/keep/images | ? The reason I have not done so is that some people keep the images | on dos partitions (which may or may not be mounted, and others keep | it on a floppy. | | There is no real standard place where loadlin users keep the | images; and any hardwired solution is unlikely to satisfy more than a | fraction of the people (who could already use /boot if they so | desired, anyway). | | An interactive solution, as you suggest, is adding a bit of | complexity to a script that already is quite critical, and | complex. Also, I am under some pressure to winnow interactivity out | of the scripts, in preparation of attempting a install process where | questions are asked before an install, not during one, so one may | answer a set of questions, and walk away; and sore the answers to | automatically feed another machine in a farm of machines. | | So, unless there is compelling arguments in favour, I am | disinclined to further increase the complexity of the postinstall | script (since a simple cp command provides the workaround). | | Comments?
I agree with Manoj, no need to make it any more complex than it is. I can offer my own solution. I made /boot a small VFAT partition that is mounted both under Linux and under Win98. So, whenever I install a kernel_image*.deb package It gets put in there by default and if/when I need to boot Linux from Win98 it's there the next time I go into Win98. Not totally automatic if it's a new kernel version, but close enough. Of course I think I've used loadlin exactly once so it's not much of an issue for me to begin with. Gary
