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

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Hi,

The following message was sent by "John van V." <joh...@ya...> on Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:37:10 -0800 (PST).

> 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.

I don't have any Debian knowledge, but when it's good what you do and we like it, why not change it?

> 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.

This will change in the Beta6.
Harddisk support (log, swap, samba,...) is running. DL itself doesn't run anymore in a Ramdisk, we switched to SHMFS (uses, if neccessary, swapspace).

> 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.  

Needs some improvements. ;-)

> Do you
> think this is an ISO boot problem.  Can Grub work on a CD ??

I don't know group.
We had Lilo before, but SYSLINUX/ISOLINUX seems to work much better.

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

Would be great.

> 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.

If you think so. ;-)

> 
> Thanks again for all your efforts,

You're welcome.

cu
  Heiko