Re: bootable linux cdrom with root filesystem HOWTO

[Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com>]

jmcelroy <jmcelroy@dtgnet.com> writes:

> Tom Fawcett wrote:
> 
> >
> > > The instructions will be RedHat specific, But the concepts should work
> > > for other distributions.
> >
> > In my opinion HOWTOs shouldn't be distribution-specific.  I'm not sure what
> > the LDP policy is.
> 
> I agree with you that in general, HOWTO's should not be distribution-specific.
> Unfortunately, the creation of any root filesystem will be dependent on the
> distribution, i.e. a SUSE root filesystem is installed differently than a
> Mandrake root filesystem.  Any documentation written on this subject will have
> to reflect this difference.

But there's nothing that would prevent him from writing it for RedHat
and accepting contributions to Mandrake, SuSE and other
distributions. The point here is to start. 

I think it's worth having this document. 

As the author of the BootDisk-HOWTO mentioned, it was in his schedule
doing that. People should help him by asking if they can write it for
each distribution (SGML markup, please) and letting him (or even
helping him to) put it together. The HOWTO should have it's name
changed to "Bootable Devices HOWTO" or something like that. 



Regards,
-- 
Godoy.	<godoy@conectiva.com> 

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