[Pkg-ltsp-devel] initramfs-tools broken

[Otavio Salvador]

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at freegeek.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 02:47:32PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> i just filed a debian bug against initramfs-tools (#380686) because it's
>> support for nfs mounting is currently broken.  the busybox in etch/sid
>> doesn't support nfs mounting (debian bug #348664), and initramfs-tools
>> uses mount from busybox.
>> 
>> the simplest workaround would be to set BUSYBOX=n in initramfs.conf, but
>> it fails to generate a functional initramfs image (and warns you that it
>> won't work).
>
> a slightly less simple(but functional) workaround is to add a hook
> script that installs /bin/mount to /mount, and then hack
> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/nfs to use /mount directly. it's
> ugly, but at least i can test ltsp now...

Would be good if you can report it as a follow up to the bug report.

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