Re: CVS commit: src/distrib

[Juergen Hannken-Illjes <hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@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.

Looks like the subset is too limited.  All I get is

        ... can't add utmpx record for 'console': No such file or directory
        ... can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port '/dev/console': No 
such file or directory

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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost - TU Braunschweig 
(Germany)