Hello, Neil. On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:41:53PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:24:22 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > That is precisely what the question was NOT about. The idea was to copy > > (not move) booting software to /sbin instead of an initramfs - the exact > > same programs, modulo noise - to have the SW in /sbin necessary to mount > > /usr. > Your package manager only knows about the copy in the original location. So? The same applies to a copy in the initramfs. > When you update you'll have multiple versions of the same program or > library in your path. Well, with the manual/script copying which needs doing either for /sbin or initramfs, that will be several copies of a program, not several versions. I'm still trying to see the reason why an /sbin with the same contents as a putative initramfs won't work. > -- > Neil Bothwick -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
