Re: CVS commit: src/distrib

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 03:49:52PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> 
> Module Name:  src
> Committed By: ad
> Date:         Fri Nov 21 15:49:52 UTC 2008
> 
> Modified Files:
>       src/distrib/cdrom: current.conf
>       src/distrib/i386: Makefile
>       src/distrib/i386/cdroms: Makefile.cdrom
>       src/distrib/i386/cdroms/bootcd: Makefile boot.cfg.in
>       src/distrib/i386/cdroms/bootcd-com: Makefile
>       src/distrib/i386/cdroms/installcd: Makefile boot.cfg.in
>       src/distrib/i386/ramdisks/common: dot.profile
> Removed Files:
>       src/distrib/i386/kmod: Makefile
> 
> Log Message:
> Switch the i386 installation CDs away from RAM disks and instead use the
> CD-ROM as the root file system. It contains a limited subset of $DESTDIR
> along with sysinst. This will help to massively reduce the amount of memory
> needed to install from CD or netboot, and allow us to continue using the
> generic kernel on the CDs.

Unless there's a way to have the root of the filesystem as a subdir of
the cd this means that mutli-arch install iso image are dead,
at last for x86 ...

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