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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Do install stuff for alpha, including making bootable CDs
+# Works with debian-installer
+#
+# Currently untested.
+
+# $1 is the CD number
+# $2 is the temporary CD build dir
+
+set -e
+
+N=$1
+CDDIR=$2
+
+# FIXME
+# Change this to $ARCHIVE/dists/$CODENAME/main/disks-alpha/current/
+# when the images are known to work
+BOOTIMAGEDIR=http://people.debian.org/~mckinstry/d-i/images/alpha
+
+# 
+cd $CDDIR/..
+
+#
+# This script is called with $1 (now $N) as the CD to 
+# make bootable.  N may be in the form "n" or "n_NONUS"
+# There may be more than 4 disks...support extras.
+
+# Strip NONUS part of disk number
+# NN will be 1...N so it can be used as an index
+#
+NN=`echo $N | sed -e 's/_NONUS//'`
+
+# List of boot image for each CD
+KTYPE[1]="" #isolinux multiboot in fact
+KTYPE[2]="cdrom-2880"
+KTYPE[3]="net-1440"
+KTYPE[4]="cdrom144-1440"
+KTYPE[5]=""
+KTYPE[6]=""
+KTYPE[7]=""
+KTYPE[8]=""
+KTYPE[9]=""
+KTYPE[10]=""
+
+THISTYPE=${KTYPE[$NN]}
+
+# Download boot images
+for image in cdrom-2880.img cdrom-initrd.gz cdrom144-1440.img cdrom144-initrd.gz net-1440.img net-initrd.gz vmlinuz ; do
+    if [ ! -e "$image" ]; then
+            wget -q $BOOTIMAGEDIR/$image
+    fi
+done
+
+if [ "$NN" = "1" ]; then
+    echo "Using ISOLINUX boot-disks image on CD$N"
+    mkdir -p boot$N/isolinux
+    cp -f $BASEDIR/data/$CODENAME/isolinux.bin boot$N/isolinux/
+    cp -lf vmlinuz $CDDIR/install/
+    cp -lf cdrom-initrd.gz $CDDIR/install/cdrom.gz
+    cp -lf cdrom144-initrd.gz $CDDIR/install/cdrom144.gz
+    cp -lf net-initrd.gz $CDDIR/install/net.gz
+    echo -n "-cache-inodes -J -l -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table " > $N.mkisofs_opts
+else
+   if [ -n "$THISTYPE" ]; then
+     echo "Using $THISTYPE boot-disks image on CD$N"
+     mkdir -p boot$N/boot
+     cp $THISTYPE.img boot$N/boot/
+     echo -n "-cache-inodes -J -l -b boot/$THISTYPE.img "  > $N.mkisofs_opts
+  else
+     mkdir boot$N
+     echo -n "-cache-inodes -J -l " > $N.mkisofs_opts
+  fi
+fi
+
+
+
+# Only disk one gets the extra files installed
+#
+if [ "$NN" = "1" ]; then
+
+
+# populate the install directory as well
+cp -lf *.img $CDDIR/install
+
+
+# Taken from boot-i386
+cat > boot$N/isolinux/isolinux.cfg <<EOF
+DEFAULT /install/vmlinuz
+APPEND vga=normal initrd=/install/cdrom.gz ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/rd/0 init=/linuxrc devfs=mount,dall rw
+LABEL linux
+  kernel /install/vmlinuz
+LABEL cdrom
+  kernel /install/vmlinuz
+LABEL cdrom144
+  kernel /install/vmlinuz
+  append vga=normal initrd=/install/cdrom144.gz ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/rd/0 init=/linuxrc devfs=mount,dall rw
+LABEL net
+  kernel /install/vmlinuz
+append vga=normal initrd=/install/net.gz ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/rd/0 init=/linuxrc devfs=mount,dall rw
+DISPLAY isolinux.txt
+TIMEOUT 0
+PROMPT 1
+F1 f1.txt
+F2 f2.txt
+F3 f3.txt
+F4 f4.txt
+F5 f5.txt
+F6 f6.txt
+F7 f7.txt
+F8 f8.txt
+F9 f9.txt
+F0 f10.txt
+EOF
+
+fi
+
+# write final lines to mkisofs_opts
+if [ "$NN" = "1" ]; then
+    echo -n "boot$N " >> $N.mkisofs_opts
+else
+    if [ -n "$THISTYPE" ]; then
+       echo -n "-c boot/boot.catalog boot$N "  >> $N.mkisofs_opts
+    fi
+fi
+