Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Installation of LinuxCOE

[Bryan G. <Bry...@HP...>]

Bruno,

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 04:11:25PM +0100, Bruno Cornec wrote:

> Side question, do you have PDF versions of those 2 guides ?
> Is the source in a XML|SGML format ?
> If not do you want I make such a version ?

FWIW, I have the tools to create this, but don't distribute this by
default (since I know you can serve the html file, and can also view
it, but can't be so sure of pdf, albeit that is very likely in this
day/age).  In the docs/guides subdir, you could do:

	make -f Makefile.transform
	make -f Makefile.transform html
	make -f Makefile.transform pdf

Only caveat, is that you may have to change the XSLSTYLE parameter to
match your system's location of that file.

That said, if you think I should distribute the PDF version, I would be happy
to include it, moving forward.

> > In the past we've included 'virgin' boot images for the majority of the 
> > distributions we support.  While this was convenient for users, it put 
> > us at odds with sourceforge's disk quotes.   Chris Slater kindly  hosts 
> > 'tarball' snapshots of System Designer at installinux:
> > 
> > http://www.instalinux.com/LinuxCOE/snapshot/

> > We'll be removing these images and including instructions on how to 
> > create your own (and perhaps hosting tarballs of just the images 
> > remotely) to decrease our disk space usage on sf.net and allow true 
> > build releases on sf.net soon.
> 
> If you want a mirror site, I may also host LinuxCOE content at
> mondorescue.org, or more precisely at dploy.org ;-)

That is a great offer as well.

And regarding Lee's comments, I am thinking I will make a distinct
make dist-images target, to gen such a bootimage only tarball (as
a convenience).  And, we will either have documentation or a script
to help users obtain (and tweak) boot images directly from the
desired distribution.

> > Hope that helps, Bryan will elaborate further I'm sure!

Sorry was home sick all day yesterday, but doing much better today.

> At last next week yes ;-)

Looking forward to it !

bryang