[pkg-fso-maint] [Fwd: patch to install.sh (Debian at FreeRunner)]

[Steffen Moeller]

Jens Seidel wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:25:16PM +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote:
>> Jens Seidel wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 11:28:41AM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
>>> The script currently assumes that either FAT or ext2 is supported. The last
>>> (which was also the first) time I used it from Qtopia, it's kernel supported
>>> only ext3. This forced me to replace ext2 by ext3 a few times in the script.
>>>
>>> It's nothing complicated but it should be automated based on the current kernel
>>> and user space utilities.
>> The current script works with an ext3 partition. I had tried it ... by accident :)
> 
> But how to generate the ext3 partition? As usual I do not find my patched install.sh
> script but the following needs to be adapted:

ah, I had performed the partitioning manually.

You mean

fs="$FS"
supported=""

if [ -z "$fs" ]; then
  if [ ! -r /proc/filesystems ]; then
    echo "The filesystem to prepare for the second partition is unspecified, and there is
no file '/proc/filesystems' from which to learn about what your kernel can do."
    supported="ext2 ext3 ext4"
  else
    for f in ext3 ext2 ext4; do
      if cat /proc/filesystems | cut -f2 | grep -q "^$f"; then
        supported="$supported $f"
      fi
    done
  fi
  if [ -z $supported ]; then
    echo
    echo
    echo "We did not find any 'ext[234]' filesystem to be supported by the current kernel.
Please specify the filesystem to use via the FS environment variable and restart the
install script."
    echo
    exit
  fi
fi

for f in $supported; do
  if [ -x "/sbin/mkfs.$f" -o -x "/usr/sbin/mkfs.$f" ]; then
    fs=$f
    break
  fi
done

if [ -z "$fs" ]; then
  echo "Could not determine filesystem to use. Please specify the filesystem via the FS
environment variable and restart the install script."
  exit
fi



mkfs.$fs
mount -t $fs

> mkfs.ext2
> mount -t ext2  (yep, ext2 and 3 are apart from the journal compatible, nevertheless
> ext2 need not be supported even if ext3 is)
> 
> The uboot specific settings should not be changed to ext3 (config file,
> ext2load, ...).
> 
>> The ext3 fs is only interpreted as ext2 by some magic, as shown at boot time. Is it just
>> the entry in the /etc/fstab? I have not checked.
> 
> Yep, really minor stuff. But one has to test it, perform a new install, ...
> How about ext4???
I tried addressing this in the scriptlet above.

I can do the new installation once my new SD card arrives. It is a rather longish process
when executed on the Moko, though this is your gold standard, right?

Many greetings

Steffen