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

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:06, Heiko Zuerker wrote:

> 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?

I think we should be LSB compliant, and in the end it should be all
the same.

>
> > 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).

Currently we use 40 MB SHMFS and we have 64 MB as minimum RAM
requirement.


> > 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. ;-)

It's not a bug it's a feature! The first ide cdrom found will be used :)
Just kidding, we'll fix that in the next beta after 0.5b6.

> > 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. ;-)

From a security standpoint I would like the user to specifiy which
module to load first because otherwise the internal and external
interface could get swapped.

But DL for sure could become the standard versatile cdrom distro in
the future.

-- 
MfG / Regards
Friedrich Lobenstock