Repairlix Distribution

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Release Name: Hammer

Notes:
This release cleans up the build process substantially. 
No new functionality in the finished ISO, but it will be 
much easier to develop on now.  This distro is more for the 
purposes of development - if you download and burn the ISO 
for any reason other than to see how it works (a goal which 
is better served by downloading the source anyway), you are 
making a bootable coaster.  Just a friendly warning.

The next release will contain some real apps.

Changes:
"Hammer" 20000816
- Rewrote the Makefile again, breaking out all files so that it more closely
  matches the usual makefile pattern.  Now there are "source files" (.sh)
  and the targets are the images.  This allows dependencies between files
  to work properly.  Also allowed me to clean up some of the junk directories.

20000815
- Rewrote the Makefile to do a syslinux bootfloppy instead of a lilo one.
  Although I finally got lilo to work properly, syslinux is faster, less
  error-prone and just plain better for this task.  The downside of syslinux
  is that you have to have it installed to build this release; I will get
  around that by bundling syslinux/mformat binaries and linking to the source.
- initrd.gz is now placed in the filesystem of the floppy instead of raw
  copied to a sector.  This fixes the problem where booting from a CD you
  would still need the floppy in the drive to boot.  The cd now boots
  all on its own, although it still just gives you a useless command prompt
  once booted.

20000814
- Fixed a warning from ldconfig when processing initrd.

20000813
- Made some changes to Makefiles.  The initrd is now always written to 
  /dev/ram0 instead of a loopback file.  This fixes the problem of 'can't find 
  init' at boot.