On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:53:46AM +0100, Juan Jose Pablos wrote: > Modifying the boot stuff is a bit tedious if you have everything on the > initrd,
It is even more tedious if you have to boot from CD. > but I would like to get clear interfaces, by interfaces i mean > responsibilities. > > boot up system. > bring interface up. > mount network share. Everything up to here has to be in initrd because the network share isn't available. Also, the way that the master script is written, the drive devices aren't populated until this point either. So, by this point we need to have all the kernel modules, the samba stuff, bash, and a couple of other small things. That works out to be roughly 85% of the stuff in initrd. The kernel modules take up a lot of space. > get configuration options > make partition > copy files > make bootable > reboot Since the network is available for these last 5, the tools for them don't really need to be in initrd. > Do you know that if you use a 4.7 Cd will not work with 4.8 network share? I would expect that to be the case and that is fine. What this proposal is more for is to go from 4.8 to 4.8 with some local changes without having to rebuild the CD. I'll see about coming up with a patch to split the stuff between what is required before the network share is mounted and the rest. Allan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
