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

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 15.06.2011 02:49, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
> 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?
> 

Do you have test builds somewhere (one image is enough, like net-i686)?

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