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On Tuesday 28 June 2005 23:27, Andreas Rueckert wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 28 June 2005 21:59, Paul Smith wrote: |
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> > Does anyone have any pointers or docs on installing a complete system |
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> > onto the HD? After I make a partition and a filesystem do I just copy |
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> > the contents of the livecd over with "cp -a" or similar? I guess I |
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> > need to install an MBR... and configure/install GRUB too I suppose? |
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> I think there are more details to consider. |
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> What kinda compression did you use? You might have to mount the splashfs |
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> under /mnt/cdrom via loop device to get access to the actual filesystem. |
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> What about the devices? You might have to use MAKEDEV to create the |
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> devices on the actual root partition. |
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> I'm working on a _very_ simply Python script to install our distribution |
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> (Seniorix, a linux system for older users), but it'll take some time |
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> before it's actually usable. |
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I already wrote a simple shell script which worked for some beta testers of |
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our livecd. |
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It's a small hack from scratch but shows some details. |
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Regards |
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Daniel |
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