Le Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:24:26PM -0500, Joey Hess écrivait: > debian-cd: > > What kinds of images do you use/need from the debian-installer tree for > building CDs on the various architectures? There is both an initrd > image, and a CD boot "floppy" image, and I do not want to waste space in > the archive with both if they are not both needed on a given > architecture.
We need : - kernel + initrd for "isolinux" (for multiple choice at boot time) for the first CD - kernel + initrd for starting the installation via LoadLin on Windows - boot images (2.88MB mainly) for making the CD 2 & above bootable (the good old way which should still work if isolinux fails) That's for i386. I can't tell for non-i386 arches but I bet that most archs need only boot images. > Last week I disabled shipping the initrd image, and this apparently > broke CD builds on i386. It looks like the CD for i386 includes both the > CD "floppy" and a cdrom.gz that looks like a renamed version of our CD > initrd. Surely these are not both necessary? Yes they are. One is needed to boot with isolinux on CD1 and the other to make another CD bootable (usual ElTorito thing). > The CD also currently contains the d-i floppy-initrd.gz (in install/), > and I do not understand how this can possibly be of use, but my removal > of that initrd from the debian-installer daily builds also seemed to > break the CD builds. The actual script downloads floppy-image.img and floppy-initrd.gz ... it copies the initrd but never use it anywhere. So we should probably remove any reference to those files in our scripts since they are not used. > as opposed to against the daily builds. And all the filenames of the > various images d-i produces are due for an overhaul that will break your > build scripts. Just a heads up for now on that.SQ Santiago (aka manty), would you like to take care of that ? I'm quite busy lately and I certainly won't be respoosive enough in the days to come ... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://www.ouaza.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com Earn money with free software: http://www.geniustrader.org