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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

On Tuesday 06 February 2007 09:14:11 Karsten Behrmann wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Has anyone tried unpacking this tarball to a partition, fiddling stuff like
> /etc/fstab, and booting it?
> I'm wondering if it'll have stuff like /etc/sysconfig/* "untracked" or in
> some other semi-messy state, or actually working.
> If it's bootable and good, the ISO team could try using it to quickly come
> up with an "updated" ISO while we're working on getting our normal
> generation fired up again.
> a "gaze alien" in the chroot would also be helpful.
>
> So Far,
>   Karsten

You could just dump it to a file and boot it with qemu to test (I'll try that 
this evening, as well as the `gaze alien`). The current etc/fstab in the 
chroot is empty, IIRC.

Good idea. :)

-sandalle

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