On Tue Sep 07 1999 at 23:34, Matt Wilson wrote:
> Subject: Re: Lorax
> On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 01:31:12PM +1000, Tony Nugent wrote:
> > Why does dosutils/autoexec.bat refer to the initrd image in the
> > ../misc/src/trees/ directory? Shouldn't it refer to the one
> > in the autoboot/ directory?
>
> Hmm - we should just nuke the one in the autoboot directory. It's
> just another thing keep in sync/take up space.
No, I disagree -- it should be the other way around! Make the
dosutils/autoboot.bat file refer to autoboot/initrd.img and have the
Makefile used to create the initrd automatically have this as the
build target.
I have been creating RedHat distribution disks [err, no longer with
an impending change of job] for our students here for the past two
years.
In order to cram as much as I could onto a 650Mb CDROM that's useful
for them, I've been nuking the entire misc/ directory tree -- which is
useless in real life for anything very much at all, certainly not for
installation or post-installation purposes (unless you are a
hacker/developer I guess).
Doing this "releases" around 50Mb of space on a customised binary
CDROM distribution. (Until RH5.2 it was possible to also fit the
entire powertools collection onto the same CDROM). Oh I do move the
genhdlist and dmphdlist utilities from there into the RedHat/base/ dir
before I do that.
But in order to allow autoboot to work, the .bat file needs to point
to a file that actually exists, which doesn't :)
*PLEASE* make autoboot.bat point to autoboot/initrd.img, and modify
the makefile (or whatever is being used to create it) to put it into
that directory. Doesn't it make sense to keep the initrd together
with the kernel image?
Doesn't it also make sense to target the genhdlist and dmphdlist
utilities to live in the RedHat/base/ directory?
Cheers
Tony
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