[Rule-list] THE RULE SITE IS UP!

[Devon]

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On Tuesday 12 February 2002 06:33 pm, Marco Fioretti wrote:

> Project page: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/rule/
>
> Please register as RULE developers and let me know your login, and I
> will give you access to CVS asap.

Hi Marco,
I will register as a developer, but I have a few questions. Some of these 
should go to the list, but I wanted to get some clarification first.

Have we decided already to work on simply modifying anaconda to accept 
lower memory than it currently does? Perhaps providing a modified boot 
and updates disk? That will work, but has some possible limitations. I 
understand the desire to have RedHat addopt it at some point, but I am 
not sure of their interest level at this point.

Are we willing to consider a small ISO image instead, to which standard 
redhat packages can be added? I posted one success to the list about 
having made a small IOS that works, judging by the complete lack of 
comment, I am beginning to think perhaps others have different ideas?

There have been comments on the list about providing postfix instead of 
sendmail, (for example). I can't see RedHat encouraging or accepting 
that. Also, since RedHat doesn't provide postfix, it won't be possible to 
include it, unless we make our own small initial ISO. 

I've continued working on the version I posted about earlier. (See my 
post "Of anacondas and garden snakes"). I now have the ISO down to 195MB. 
The installed system uses ~165MB of disk space. I don't see the installed 
system getting much smaller. (The running system is fairly responsive, 
which sort of surprised me). 
It has installed on 12MB of ram, and I am patiently waiting to see if it 
is going to start installing on 8MB as I write this. I'm hopeful, but 
anaconda has been loading for nearly an hour now. The 16 Mb install took 
about 25 minutes, and the 12 MB took about 35. Most of that time was 
spent installing packages, probably due to using the oldest slowest disk 
I could find. (3800 RPM disk)

Understand, I am not against doing this as a modified anaconda. I think a 
low mem option would be useful. (Though I still don't know that RedHat 
would be interested.)

Anyway, interested in your thoughts. Please let me know. I don't want to 
waste a whole lot more time on the ISO idea if the rest of the group has 
decided on other options.

- -D

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