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Bug 29350 - p3 livecd install.html file has a few "errors"
Summary: p3 livecd install.html file has a few "errors"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Gentoo Linux x86 Installation Guide (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2003-09-22 11:04 UTC by Michael Cummings (RETIRED)
Modified: 2003-09-23 02:26 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
Patch to change "uname -r" to "kernel version" (gentoo-x86-install.diff-no_uname_for_modules,490 bytes, patch)
2003-09-23 01:14 UTC, Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)
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Description Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-22 11:04:43 UTC
The install.html file shipped with the Pentium3 livecd 1.4 (not sure if this 
affects all platforms or not) contains a few errors in the code.

* Users are told to do a `uname -r` to get the kernel version when making a 
list of modules to add to the modules.autoload.d/kernel-version file - except 
that uname -r returns the version of the kernel on the livecd, not the kernel 
they installed (ie, maybe we should dump that with just a generic 
<kernelversion here>)
* Package name/path for reiserfstools has moved (probably on its way to being 
fixed, just passing on)


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-23 00:44:23 UTC
Indeed. Although the "uname -r" will still work (since module names don't change often in between kernel trees) it is a possible point of problems (especially if the user thinks that he has selected the module in his kernel configuration). I'll change this in a minute.

About the reiserfsprogs (not reiserfstools) this change has been made previous week on the online documentation (with the sys-fs move). 
Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-23 01:14:42 UTC
Created attachment 18192 [details, diff]
Patch to change "uname -r" to "kernel version"
Comment 3 Benny Chuang (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-23 01:22:22 UTC
patch reviewed
Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-23 02:26:40 UTC
Committed. Thanks for reporting, Michael.