[Devil-linux-develop] eLSD -- Linux Society Distros and Tools Available

[John v. V. <joh...@ya...>]

Hi, Three versions of eLSD are available at http://www.thinman.com/eLSD

The first is a faithful release of Devil-Linux with a simplified build and burn
kit.

The second is a modified Devil-Linux where the initrd/linuxrc and init/boot
files have been changed to make these two components more independant of each
other.  Also, no configuraton floppy is necessary, that can be created after
the boot.

The third is a hard drive version where an eLSD/Devil-Linux root file system
has been turned into an iso image containing a root system tar file.

Cdrecord has been implemented here within the kernel and a variety of initrd
and grub and parted tools are available.

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From the Readme
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eLSD v0.1   Build kit directly from Devil Linux
             * Also included is dl_build which was the first build kit
               derived from Heiko's scripts

eLSD v0.2   First true eLSD, major changes to the linuxrc and init.d/boot files
             * Does not require a boot floppy
               - Builds a boot floppy w/ save-config

eLSD v0.3a  EXPERIMENTAL hard drive version designed to burn eLSD/Devil-Linux
            CDs.

             ## I created all of these tools to stimulate growth in the area
             ## of Linux OS development which I believe has stagnated

              * Initrd w/ new busybox/tinylogin tools which works independantly
                - Your /boot partition is in control of the system
              * Initrd that boots to the DL derived hard drive eLSD OS
                - this allows and FSCK of the root file system w/o mounting
                  it
              * Gnu/grub boot floppy that has a kernel but no OS
                - Make the boot disk bootable, no tutorial
              * Gnu/parted floppies which has a full OS but no grub :(
                - First step in dist'n linux, includes text tutorial
              * New kernel which supports CDRECORD w/o append lines in boot
                process so that DL/eLSD can burn DL/eLSD from the CD boot

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John van Vlaanderen

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