Re: loader/stage2 interaction

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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:44:41PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:12 -0500, Jeff Bastian wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, James Laska wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 10:32 -0400, Chris Lumens wrote:
> > >> - We shouldn't leave the repo mounted at the end of loader.
> > >>
> > >>   Problem:  RHupdates/ will no longer work.
> > >
> > > How frequently do folks use RHupdates these days?  If recent memory
> > > serves, I've been using nothing but updates.img's for all http, ftp, and
> > > nfs installs.
> > 
> > I use it on occasion when debugging something in anaconda.  It's a bit 
> > faster than spinning an updates.img.
> 
> I said that for a while, but now that we can have updates.img being a
> cgz, I'm less convinced.
>   find $foo |cpio -H newc -o |gzip -9 > updates.cgz
> is pretty straightforward and no more difficult really.  The problem
> with the filesystem images was always having to be root
> 

cramfs works as well. Any user can run mkcramfs.

Elliot

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