[Devil-linux-develop] Linux Society Meeting / DL Intro -> Fantastic !!

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

All the skeptics were swayed...  There is no doubt at all that the Linux
Society Distro as a DL derivative will change the course of human history.

No kidding, we are truly grateful for your efforts and are presently debating
where our parallal CVS will be housed... oh yeah, you got the BCC mailing ;)

Personally, I am not to concerned about the VALinux issues, license agreements
are just that.

I want to reflect the following (very constructive) comments.  My guys like
Debian, and after showing them some problems in the LFS written init.d/network
script they really balked.  Personally, I always liked /etc/rc.local... but
thats a personal preferance.  They want to go w/ a Debian stucture which I
imagine follows offical linux standards.  I have been working on Solaris and
HPUX recently.

They so much love the CD-only solution that I had to show them your
self-imposed bug reporting about harddrive access.  They then suggested we
search for a VFAT MSDOS disk as well where we could set up a DL/LSD file system
including swap space.  We got a giggle when the perl install crashed the box
for lack of memory.

Also, they dont like ISO Boot (by reputuation) and the society already
committed to Grub.  My booting problem, that you fixed wasnt really broken.  DL
was trying to boot from the CDWriter, hdc not the Fast CDreader, hdd.  Do you
think this is an ISO boot problem.  Can Grub work on a CD ??

They took careful note of my cdrecord scsi/ide emu changes as well as the
cdrecord command switches.  Now all we need is to recreate your development
environment on each of members workstations, get the VMWare support, and we are
on our way.

I will start working on TO-DO so that we can we can refresh your CVS with our
modifications.

Ethernet card detection is very high on the list, for obvious reasons.  Once we
get that, then the rest of the distributed install is a cakewalk.

Thanks again for all your efforts,

John and the "whole damn society"


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