Bug 96777 – Handbook on Universal Install CD gives bad file name for kernel config 2.6

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description James Armstrong 2005-06-22 05:10:19 UTC]

In the handbook on the Universal Install CD 2005.0 the line: "# zcat
/proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6 " does not include
the "-config" as it does in the on-line version.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot Install CD
2. Look at handbook.

Actual Results:  
The line reads : 
# zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-2.6


Expected Results:  
The line should read :
# zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6


The build / install worked anyway because the file somehow existed anyway

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-06-22 06:19:36 UTC]

genkernel works with either...

You are *creating* the file when you redirect the output, so there's nothing
incorrect in the Handbook.

Also, bugs in the Handbook go to the docs-team, and actually have nothing to do
with the LiveCD itself.

[Comment 2 James Armstrong 2005-06-30 18:48:30 UTC]

No, it IS an error because the next install step prints out a status message 
saying that it is taking its input from the correct file name. Also, I've 
noticed that the on-line version of the handbook has the correct file name.  
So the Live CD is in fact in error.

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-07-01 06:22:20 UTC]

Well excuse me, then.  No need to get snippy about it.

Anyway, I'm assigning this to the docs team.

[Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2005-07-02 05:15:32 UTC]

We can't fix documentation that is hard-burned on the installation CDs...