[arch-releng] Call for test: archiso with dm-snapshot

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Tue Jun 14 20:49:21 EDT 2011


On 06/14/2011 02:21 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 14.06.2011 17:12, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>> I know about it, but if you insist I will do it, no problem.
>>
>> I personally dislike the idea, since it is currently divided in a
>> certain logical form(ArchLinux in one place, Syslinux in another), and
>> serves the time to put several "Linux's" on the same storage medium,
>> sharing the same bootloader
> I want to eventually be able to copy just the 'arch' folder onto another
> medium, install syslinux and use the arch live environment without
> modifications.
>
> Currently, this is messy, and it will only get better if we get the
> syslinux stuff into /arch.
>
> We can discuss this further if you like, which use cases do you know for
> this separation?
>
OK, done it. Since this is specific to isolinux component of syslinux. I 
pushed it on /isolinux ;)

/mnt/
├── arch
│ ├── aitab
│ ├── any
│ │ ├── core-any-pkgs.sfs
│ │ └── usr-share.fs.sfs
│ ├── boot
│ │ ├── i686
│ │ │ ├── archiso.img
│ │ │ └── vmlinuz26
│ │ ├── memtest
│ │ ├── memtest.COPYING
│ │ └── syslinux
│ │ ├── *.0
│ │ ├── *.c32
│ │ ├── *.com
│ │ ├── hdt
│ │ │ ├── modalias.gz
│ │ │ └── pciids.gz
│ │ ├── memdisk
│ │ ├── splash.png
│ │ └── syslinux.cfg
│ └── i686
│ ├── core-pkgs.sfs
│ ├── lib-modules.fs.sfs
│ └── root-image.fs.sfs
└── isolinux
├── boot.cat
├── isolinux.bin
└── isolinux.cfg

OK?

-- 
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
\cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1



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