[Devil-linux-develop] Shutdown and etc.tar.gz

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

Hi, Imagine my surprise when my changes to etc were gone on reboot !!

I am thinking of a shutdown command that syncs the tar on the floppy.

I am going to look into ethernet card detection, that seems to be the most
vital missing item for a newbie distro since they probably wont know what they
have on board.

Also going to look over linuxfromscratch to see where they are coming from.

Cheers, John

Ps, still didnt get CVS to work right... passwds, not sure what they mean by a
module.




--- Heiko Zuerker <hz...@pr...> wrote:
> 
> On 03/07/2002 04:17:05 PM John van V. wrote:
> >Hi, notes client ??
> >
> >You  must still have a job !! :)  Good for you.  I got laid off
> >recently, NYC
> >is in bad shape still.
> 
> Yes, I come from our German headquarter and work now in North Carolina.
> And I'm the only Admin, makes things easier. ;-)
> 
> >
> >I am still learning, bear with me please.
> 
> I have to think about it. ;-)
> 
> >
> >I did try smalllinux and it wouldnt mount any redhat disks.
> >
> >Also tinyX didnt work either; you could specify the path to xinit and
> >it would
> >come back "not found".  The startx script worked fine... but binaries
> >came back
> >not found, weird.
> >
> >Here are some of the newbie questions I will be asking... just a
> >heads-up ;)
> >
> >Where is the ftp site ??
> 
> ftp://ftp.de.devil-linux.org or ftp://ftp.devil-linux.org  (is the same)
> 
> >I didnt find any of the docs you mentioned about how do build the ISO
> >file,
> >there must be a script, right ??
> 
> When you unpack the bz2 file, there is a docs directory with a file
> DEVELOPER (I think).
> 
> >How do you use cvs, I tried but failed and then got kicked of the
> >computer, not
> >mine.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=34096
> More CVS stuff here: http://www.cvshome.org
> 
> Using the build system is a bit complicated, but the most important part is
> described in the DEVELOPER file.
> 
> >
> >How do you install Grub instead of LILO  (why?? I am basically tired of
> >looking
> >at those letters, a full decade !!)
> 
> I never used Grub, we use ISOLINUX, which is a part of SYSLINUX.
> 
> >Is it possible to just copy the devil over to  mounted harddrives as an
> >install
> >technigue ??
> 
> I don't think so, we never tried it.
> But all the Scripts are made for CD.
> As an info for your presentation:
> DL 0.5Beta6 will support harddisks (with LVM and ReiserFS) for storing
> logfiles and for Squid (also included in Beta6).
> Postfix is also already included, but the scripts and config files are not
> working yet.
> 
> >
> >Some commands, find for instance seemed to be missing.
> 
> Yes. The system is very stripped down.
> Write all the commands you're missing on the website in the forum under
> bugs, so we can include them in a later release.
> 
> >
> >Is there any hardware detection available ??
> 
> nope and not planned yet.
> We have only 1 1/2 developers. ;-)
> You can ask for volunteers, but only people with a good Linux knowledge.
> 
> >Ok... as soon as I know how to burn the disks and use cvs I will update
> >my
> >changes.  It might be smart for me to create our own SourceForge
> >project and
> >make our mistakes there.
> 
> Probably.
> But you should always think about working together with others and make 1
> very good product instead of 2 "ok" products.
> 
> cu
>   Heiko=


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