[Thinstation-developer] RE: Alfa3...other notes...

[Miles R. <mr...@we...>]

hi Paolo,

Where did we get with this, I've been busy with other stuff so haven't been
followign up on this.  Finished the "build" environment nearly, you can
compile it now on any machine, regardless of GCC, GLIBC version.

Let me know what else you need finished for your customer.

Cheers

Miles

-----Original Message-----
From: Paolo Salvan [mailto:al...@io...]
Sent: Saturday, 25 October 2003 06:24 a.m.
To: Miles Roper; Thinstation-developer
Subject: Alfa3...other notes...


Hi Miles!

After saying in the previous mail "it's ok, I have the demo CD ready!",
now I've found a BIG problem :o(

Initialization of "profile_get" is executed after "network": this mean
that I can't specify the network settings in the floppy.... :o(

In my customr condition, we can't assume there is a DHCP and we need to
specify network params in the floppy, PC by PC...

I've tried simply changing the "rc0.d" order (moving first "filesystemn"
and "storage"), but network doesn't work anymore... :o(

I know that for some configuration (ie: profile stored on a "nfs"
mount...) we need profile_get executed AFTER network setup, but this
can't be generalized.
I think we should check the STORAGE_PATH and decide if
"filesystem+profile_get" should be executed BEFORE or AFTER network
setup...

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...some other less relevant notes:

- NET_DNS_SEARCH: can we rename it NET_DEFAULT_DOMAIN?

- during the boot it writes: "Initializing buildin packages"
                                           ^^^^^^^ builTin

- with the debug module (but perhaps also without...):
  just before the command line, there is an error "can't access tty"
  the only concrete problem I'm getting is "more" not working...

bye!

Paolo