[RULE] Miniconda 0.8.0 anyone?

[Michael Fratoni]

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It snowed today. It's still snowing. I hate snow.

That said, I left work at the start of the storm, came home, and decided 
to get to work on patching anaconda. I've been feeling like I abandoned 
the project.. ;)

I have a working version of Miniconda for Red Hat Linux 8.0. It's tested 
via a CD ROM install on a Pll-350. I've tested down to 16M of RAM. It was 
a bit slow, but it did install. It's still a bit rough, and needs 
additional cleanup.

No provision has been made for the fact that there is no i386 kernel 
package on the stock disks. If you have less than an i486, this won't 
work.

Adding an i386 kernel package and burning a new CD may work, I haven't had 
a chance to test it. If anyone wants to do that, feel free. ;) Currently 
I don't even have a test system available with less than an i586.

Usage is pretty simple. Download the updates-0.8.0.img and:
dd if=updates-0.8.0.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

Download an appropriate boot.img, and do the same for that file.

Boot with your new boot disk, hit enter at the prompt (The installer knows 
it needs an updates disk, no need to pass the 'updates' flag to the 
installer.) If you do need to pass flags at boot time, just enter 'linux 
[your options]' and enter. For example mem=16M ide=nodma etc.

Insert the updates disk when prompted.

A base install is pre selected when you select the "Low Memory" install 
class. I haven't had a lot of time to pull packages out of the comps 
file, so there is still work to do there. If you are so inclined, you can 
edit the comps.xml file on the updates disk and remove additional 
packages in the 'base' portion. During install you will be presented with 
the option to select additional package groups. If you have a low memory 
machine, don't select any...

The base install requires only Red Hat Linux CD 1. The installer claimed 
it needed ~480M of disk space, it actually used ~342M.

The files are here:
http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/miniconda/miniconda-v0.8.0/

(There is also a rule.patch that contains all the patches I applied to the 
anaconda source.)

I'll get them uploaded to the FSF server tomorrow.

Feedback, as always, would be wonderful.

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pgp key:  http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/
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