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[Mentalunix-developers] Re: MentalUnix, YoZilla, and other stuff [Yahoo! Clubs: mentalunix]
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From: CyDust <clu...@ya...> - 2000-12-12 06:16:07
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ok, I tried installing debian from mounted hard drive, but i cant get it to find my modem, so I'm gonna wait for my potato cd's (should be here thursday or friday). I was using suse, but got really tired of those damn rpms. I've got a couple of revised ideas. First of all. I think initially, to get our this project moving, we might want to consider loosely basing the distribution on debian. The extreme robustness of debian is awesome, and makes it an excelent choice. The install is awesome, and we can use that as a start. The first installation program should be something based on something like loadlin, so it can be installed via windows, and just create a simple batch file for the loadlin starting a very simple install program, same thing can be done to create a bootable cd or floppy images. The install should be composed of a simple interface that will load cfdisk (or fdisk) to partition the hard drive, then the option to initalize the swap partition (or to skip that step) then initialize the linux partitions (or at least mount them), then finally install, configure, reboot. Since the first couple releases will be bare and highly useless for the most part (possibly highly unstable as well), we might want to consider single user install. (basically only root) if we do that, however, it will need to be changed before we stabalize the distro. So, to save space and whatnot, lets say single-user until 0.0.9 by 0.1 we want a little more usability on install. 0.2 or 0.3 release will be around 50mb and should include fileutils, and egcs (or gcc which ever it is) as well as gmake. 0.4 will be semi usable, and use apt (or something like that) for pkg installation. 0.5 will have a straight console gui install similar to debians. from 0.6 up to 0.9 the main goal should be packages and installation. the base should be frozen by 0.5 0.1 will have two versions, a cd version and a dl version. the cd will have everything needed include all the basic packages. the dl version will be the base, the drivers, kernel, a dialer, and a package installer, as well as a compiler and stuff. we should not consern ourselves with anything but the basics until 0.5, from 0.0.1 upto 0.4 we need to work on the filesystem pattern, the basic fs hierarchy, the kernel configuration and the overall stability and usability. 0.5 and up we start including user packages. Depending on what we do for package management, dpkg, apt, and apt-get would be perfect. or we modify dpkg into mkg, and use that as the base. If we go on my idea of being able to convert debs and rpms into mpkgs, then it will require some severe hacking, and require a lot of work, but if we are successful, we might be able to create a competeter to debian in terms of its overall excellence. --------------------------------------------- DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE BY EMAIL! --------------------------------------------- You have chosen to receive messages from "mentalunix" by email. Reply to this message: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/mentalunix/bbsfrp?action=r&tid=mentalunix&sid=1600006580&mid=351 Unsubscribe from the Club mailing list: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/mentalunix/config/change_mb_list Return to "mentalunix": http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/mentalunix ---------------------------------------------- Not a member? Remove yourself from this list: http://edit.clubs.yahoo.com/config/unsubscribe_mb_list?.userID=munix_devr&.groupID=mentalunix&.groupType=&.code=IVyJGMuRxG |
