Anyone know if building a reiserfs-enabled bootable CD is in the
plans for the release or is this work being done for a future, yet unamed,
release? IIRC several other distros have started adding this as an
install option... Might be a good idea if we can make it as seamless as
any other install option...
Jeremy
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:27:21AM -0800, Christopher S. Swingley wrote:
> > I noticed that the most recent woody boot disks include a directory
> > for Reiserfs support. How would one create a Debian install CD
> > (with the debian-cd package) that uses this kernel / boot image?
>
> If you edit the file '/usr/share/debian-cd/tools/boot/woody/boot-i386'
> (or whatever your platform is) to include:
>
> # what kernel-type to put on what disk?
> # a null "" value will use the default boot-disk kernel
> #
> KTYPE[1]="reiserfs"
>
> Then the first CD created will have a bootable reiserfs kernel, plus
> the modules for that kernel and a neat bootstrap installer that knows
> how to make reiser partitions and mount them with the right options.
> Assuming you include 'make bootable' when building the CD's with the
> debian-cd package.
>
> Unfortunately, the boot-floppy stuff doesn't seem to be working
> correctly (3.0.12-2001-08-21) -- the modules won't load so I can't
> get my network card running (3C509) and it can't find the base system
> on the CD either.
>
> But when the boot floppies are ready, it'll be really slick!
>
> Chris
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