Package: bootcd Version: 2.49 Severity: minor Tags: patch
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man5/bootcdwrite.conf.5.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages bootcd depends on: ii bootcd-i386 2.49 bootcd extension to create images ii cpio 2.6-6 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii dosfstools 2.11-2.1 Utilities to create and check MS-D ii fdutils 5.5-20050303-1 Linux floppy utilities ii file 4.12-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii mkisofs 4:2.01+01a03-2 Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem ii realpath 1.9.25 Return the canonicalized absolute Versions of packages bootcd recommends: ii cdrecord 4:2.01+01a03-2 command line CD writing tool -- no debconf information
--- - 2005-10-01 03:59:47.202288000 -0400 +++ /tmp/bootcdwriteconf.5.gz.24055 2005-10-01 03:59:47.000000000 -0400 @@ -20,14 +20,14 @@ .TP .B KERNEL="<path>" -Define the path to the kernel which should be used. (SRCDISK will be automaticly added to path if path does not start with "/" !) +Define the path to the kernel which should be used. (SRCDISK will be automatically added to path if path does not start with "/" !) Default is "vmlinuz" .TP .B INITRD="<path>" Recent official debian kernel images (2.4.x) have started installing initrd images. If you want to use such a kernel to build a bootcd without -recompiling the kernel you have to use an initrd image and add it here. (SRCDISK will be automaticly added to path of INITRD if it does not start with "/" !) +recompiling the kernel you have to use an initrd image and add it here. (SRCDISK will be automatically added to path of INITRD if it does not start with "/" !) The installed initrd image used to boot from harddisk does not always work from cdrom and miss some drivers and features you need for bootcd. If CDDEV="auto" should be used, you have to build a new initrd. Use bootcdmkinitrd to do so. Default is "initrd.img" @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ .TP .B NOT_TO_CD="" -Add directories which should be excluded from bootcd. Directories are separated by spaces. (SRCDISK will be automaticly added to each path that does not start +Add directories which should be excluded from bootcd. Directories are separated by spaces. (SRCDISK will be automatically added to each path that does not start with "/" !). Default is "" @@ -79,12 +79,12 @@ .B NOT_TO_RAM="" When you boot from CD parts of the CD will be copied to ram. Here you can decide, what should not go to ram. The directories /etc /var /dev /tmp /home and /root will be in RAM because they have to be writable. Directories are separated by spaces. On CD this dirs will get different names (/etc.ro, /var.ro, ...) but you do not have to use those different names in NOT_TO_RAM any more !!! - If you exclude files in NOT_TO_RAM, they will be copied to CD and you will find a symbolic link instead of the file in RAM pointing to the file on CD. (SRCDISK will be automaticly added to each path that does not start with "/" !). + If you exclude files in NOT_TO_RAM, they will be copied to CD and you will find a symbolic link instead of the file in RAM pointing to the file on CD. (SRCDISK will be automatically added to each path that does not start with "/" !). Default is "" .TP .B SSHOSTKEY="<yes|no>" -If you are using ssh it is helpfull to have a unique ssh hostkey for each CD. This will be generated at burntime with SSHHOSTKEY="<yes>". +If you are using ssh it is helpful to have a unique ssh hostkey for each CD. This will be generated at burntime with SSHHOSTKEY="<yes>". Default is "no" .TP @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ .TP .B BOOT_ONLY_WITH_FLOPPY="<yes|no>" -If you want to boot several machines from the same cdrom, you must have the individual configuartion (exp: /etc/network/interfaces) on floppy. If one can not be mounted it is a good idea to stop booting and to wait for manual interaction instead of comming up with a wrong configuration. +If you want to boot several machines from the same cdrom, you must have the individual configuration (exp: /etc/network/interfaces) on floppy. If one can not be mounted it is a good idea to stop booting and to wait for manual interaction instead of coming up with a wrong configuration. Default is "no" .TP @@ -159,19 +159,19 @@ .TP .B NOTCOMPRESSED="<list of files and directories>" Files or Directory-Trees that should never be compressed on CD can be listed -here. This is usefull for documentation which should be visible without installing the bootcd-image. +here. This is useful for documentation which should be visible without installing the bootcd-image. Define the path as it is on the CD, (with /var.ro instead of /var) and separate files and directories with spaces. Default is "" .TP .B DISABLE_CRON="<list of files>" -Files listed will be on the cdrom with a .no_run_on_bootcd suffix so run-parts won't execute them. The original file will be a link to /bin/true. This is meant for cron maintainance scripts which are useless on a static cdrom. The default is to disable the daily find, standard and security scripts. With bootcd2disk this files will be reactivated again. (SRCDISK will be automaticly added to path if path does not start with "/" !) +Files listed will be on the cdrom with a .no_run_on_bootcd suffix so run-parts won't execute them. The original file will be a link to /bin/true. This is meant for cron maintenance scripts which are useless on a static cdrom. The default is to disable the daily find, standard and security scripts. With bootcd2disk this files will be reactivated again. (SRCDISK will be automatically added to path if path does not start with "/" !) Default is "etc/cron.daily/find etc/cron.daily/standard etc/cron.daily/security" .TP .B MKISOFS_CHNG="<option>" Add some additional options to mkisofs on creating cdimage. Possible syntax is MKISOFS_CHNG="[[!]<option>...]". - Most peoble will probably define "", but it was reported that you may need the following option with newer hardware "\-boot-load-size 20". + Most people will probably define "", but it was reported that you may need the following option with newer hardware "\-boot-load-size 20". Please create debian-bugreports if you have to use special options, not mentioned here. Then I can list this options here!
