RE: [cobalt-users] Modifying an OSRCD to look at floppy for 'release_spec' file

["Greg O'Lone" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Bruce Timberlake
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 8:13 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] Modifying an OSRCD to look at floppy 
> for 'release_spec' file
> 
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> > Would it be possible to create an OSRCD (I'm particularly 
> interested in
> > a RaQ4r disc) that will ask for the spec file to be read 
> from the floppy
> > drive? I have compiled SO MANY OSRCDs in the last two weeks just to
> > change the spec file, I am going bankrupt! It would be 
> really nice if I
> > could just modify the file, stick in a new floppy and try 
> the install
> > again.
> 
> I would think so... I took a quick look into
> 
> /nfsroot-x86/bto-sync/production/3001R_1.72/installer/ifuncs
> 
> (for my RaQ4i CD) and found the routine which sets the relevant
> environment variable RELSPEC (that determines the spec file 
> location for 
> the rest of the process). My comments inline, marked with 
> leading "##"):
> 
> function __set_RELSPEC
> # Find the release spec file relevant to the current product,
> # and set env var `RELSPEC' to it.
> {
>     if [ -e release_spec ]; then
> ##             ^^^^
> ## Add a check here for the file on a specific device
> ## instead of just in the current directory:
> ##
> ##  if [ -e /mnt/floppy/release_spec ]; then
> 
>         echo Using deprecated release_spec
>         echo Using deprecated release_spec
>         echo Using deprecated release_spec'   'READ
>         echo Using deprecated release_spec
>         echo Using deprecated release_spec'   'YOUR
>         echo Using deprecated release_spec
>         echo Using deprecated release_spec'   'MAIL
>         echo Using deprecated release_spec
>         echo Using deprecated release_spec'    !!!!'
>         echo Using deprecated release_spec
>         RELSPEC=release_spec
>     else
>         RELSPEC=release_spec.${PRODUCT:?}
> ##                              ^^^^^^^^^
> ## I think you'd want to change this line to
> ##      RELSPEC=/mnt/floppy/release_spec.${PRODUCT:?}
> ##
> ## or something similar
> 
>     fi
> }
> 
> 
> I'd do more error checking for the floppy device/graceful 
> degradation/etc
> for a "public" release of the "fix".  Also, you may have to 
> tweak the base
> OS on the CD to mount a floppy drive, and most laptops won't have both
> available at once so this whole thing would be moot anyway... 
> (maybe have
> a way to get it across the network or something? Hmm...)
> 
> But if you're sure of your own hardware setup, you could skip 
> the check and
> "hardwire" a specific device. Then just make sure that floppy 
> is in there
> when this thing runs!
> 
> - -- 
> Bruce Timberlake
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Thanks Bruce....You Are Awesome! I will check this out when I get a sec.


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