Greg Morgan wrote:
>
> Greg Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Snicker. There is a subtle difference in backing up root on DCD102. I
think I ripped out most of my hair but it finally dawned on me what was
happening. For floppies a backup of root is made to the same floppy
that you will boot from. So any changes you make to root like adding
the new POSIXness.mail fix below will be seen by the boot process.
Modifying the DCD102 ISO requires three steps to achieve the same
effect. The first is the normal full backup of root. The second is to
copy root.lrp to the the root directory of where you will make your ISO
from. Finally, bootdisk.bin needs to be mounted and copy the new
root.lrp into the bootdisk.bin directory. This is the essential change
so that the modified root can be used in the boot process. Is there
even a need to have root.lrp in the ISO root?
I did try to remove root.lrp from bootdisk.bin to see what happens. The
following messages appeared on the console:
Loading
Could not find ramdisk image: root.lrp
boot:
I don't know if initrd= syslinux.cfg parameter in bootdisk.bin can be
modified to point to the root of the ISO.
So unless you are going to modify your ISO for some reason, it is
pointless to backup root for DCD. Neither root.lrp on the floppy nor on
the the root of the ISO are used in the boot process.
Smile. I found the process illuminating.
Greg Morgan
> <snip>
> > The first problem I am having is on my DCD102 system. I put ipmail in
> > /usr/bin/ipmail. I then performed a backup of root.lrp. ipmail was not
> > in the backup.
>
> So I figured out the problem. I unzipped and untarred the root.lrp
> package. ipmail and /lib/POSIXness/POSIXness.mail updates are in the
> package. There was not conflict with root.lrp and other packages as I
> thought earlier. I am booting from CD with some package backups on
> floppy. Even though I am backing up root.lrp. The boot process is using
> the root.lrp from the cdrom. So is there something to tell DCD1.0.2 to
> pull the backup of root from the floppy, or is this a bug? I am
> creating a full backup. I cannot see how this would have caused
> problems, but I did modify the original ISO to include the latest ssh
> and libz packages.
>
> <snip>
>
> Greg Morgan
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